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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Many academics including Dirk Kolff and [[Walter Hauser]] have noted that Bihar has a history of armed activism among its peasantry.<ref name=Hauser2004>{{cite journal | title=From Peasant Soldiering to Peasant Activism: Reflections on the Transition of a Martial Tradition in the Flaming Fields of Bihar | author= Walter Hauser | journal=Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |volume = 47| issue= 3 | year=2004 | pages= 401–434|jstor = 25165055| doi= 10.1163/1568520041974684 }}</ref> For centuries, [[Purbiya]] soldiers from Western [[Bihar]] have long served as soldiers in the armies of Kings in Western regions of India. [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] sources also record that many peasant soldiers were recruited from Northern parts of Bihar (Tirhut).<ref name="Jha2018">{{cite book|author=Pankaj Jha|title=A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8xl9DwAAQBAJ|date=20 November 2018|publisher=OUP India|isbn=978-0-19-909535-3|page=22}}</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Many academics including Dirk Kolff and [[Walter Hauser]] have noted that Bihar has a history of armed activism among its peasantry.<ref name=Hauser2004>{{cite journal | title=From Peasant Soldiering to Peasant Activism: Reflections on the Transition of a Martial Tradition in the Flaming Fields of Bihar | author= Walter Hauser | journal=Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |volume = 47| issue= 3 | year=2004 | pages= 401–434|jstor = 25165055| doi= 10.1163/1568520041974684 }}</ref> For centuries, [[Purbiya]] soldiers from Western [[Bihar]] have long served as soldiers in the armies of Kings in Western regions of India. [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] sources also record that many peasant soldiers were recruited from Northern parts of Bihar (Tirhut).<ref name="Jha2018">{{cite book|author=Pankaj Jha|title=A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8xl9DwAAQBAJ|date=20 November 2018|publisher=OUP India|isbn=978-0-19-909535-3|page=22}}</ref> </div></td></tr>
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