Elections. in India's 1st Elections website Home » Blog » It is the War of the Backwards in Bihar It is the War of the Backwards in Bihar By Deepak Parvatiyar September 25, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 1 vote Bihar has not seen any upper caste chief minister after 1990. Call it a renaissance, or an uprising of the backwards. Yet, tautly the 2015 state elections is the turf war between the backwards in a state that was once the seat of the mighty “low caste” Mauryas, whose empire was the largest ever in the Indian subcontinent. You may also like to read · The caste game in Bihar · JDU Candidate List 2015 · RJD Candidate List 2015 The Yadavs could well be called the modern day ‘Mauryas’ of Bihar. Their satrap, Lalu Yadav, ruled with an iron grip over Bihar throughout the 1990s and the first five years of the new millennium. But unlike the Mauryas, whose glory went far and wide as they expanded their great Empire from Magadh to Assam to Balochist
