Bihar
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Bihar is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 21, 2021 and May 15, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “In Bihar [India], the share of the work force in manufacturing dropped”; “Mr. Gandhi often visited villages and towns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar”. It most often appears alongside Germany, India, 1820s France.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 21, 2021
- Last seen: May 15, 2023
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Soon the world was flooded with cheap British goods, and everywhere else's manufacturing industries collapsed. In 1600, India, the Middle East, and Africa all had their native traditions of manufacturing. These might not have been giant factories, but people were making textiles, iron, tools, weapons, etc at various levels of sophistication. They all disappeared as Britain outcompeted them: "In Bihar [India], the share of the work force in manufacturing dropped from 22% around 1810 to 9% in 1901." These regions switched back to farming, especially growing crops that British people wanted.
Mr. [Sanjay] Gandhi allocated quotas to the chief ministers of every state that they were supposed to meet by any means possible. The chief ministers, too, in an attempt to impress the younger Gandhi, strived hard to meet those targets. Mr. Gandhi often visited villages and towns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to encourage and approve the tremendous work being done in terms of meeting sterilization goals. Commissioners were awarded gold medals for their hard work. As a result, nothing mattered when it came to meeting the targets. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were at the top when it came to exceeding the targeted number of sterilizations, resulting in more commissioners from these states receiving medals.