Bihar was an important part of India's struggle for independence.Gandhi became the mass leader only after the Champaran Satyagraha that he launched on the repeated request of a local leader, Rajkumar Shukla, he was supported by great illumanaries like Rajendra Prasad, Anugrah Narayan Sinha and Brajkishore Prasad. After independence also, when India was falling into an autocratic rule during the regime of Indira Gandhi, the main thrust to the movement to hold elections came from Bihar under the leadership of Jaya Prakash Narayan.
This has resulted in two things:
1. There is no regional identity for the state. Its voice often gets lost in the din of regional clamor of other states, specially the linguistic states like Andhra, karnataka etc.
2. Bihar has gained an anti establishment image. The establishment oriented press often projects this as indiscipline and anarchy.
