The political awareness in Bihar in the Pre-revolutionary era was not favourable for the growth of revolutionary movement. of-course, there existed some racical feeling, and frequent occurrences of famines and scarcity had caused immense hardship to the people, but there was not that keen sense of resentment which partition of Bengal and brought about among the Bengalis. On the contrary the educated Biharis engaged in the agitation for separation of Bihar from Bengal looked forward to the prospect of having a province of their own.