About the Book Bihar is a typical example of a backward political economy
although it has the potential enough to be one of the front runners if the
political management is given priority over the casteist political brinkmanship.
It is abysmally underdeveloped having the largest share of illiterate and
under-fed poor people living in subhuman habitats. Political Parties here are
out to exploit the caste and communal factors around to pursue their brand of
politics at the cost of the development of the state. This study attempts to
focus on this neglected issue of Bihar politics as far as possible.
The children of the early 1990s