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The Khuda Bakhsh Khan Oriental Public Library in Patna is a repository of about 21,000 Oriental manuscripts and 2.5 lakh printed books.

How Bihar is rapidly losing the libraries that it was once famous for

Once famous for its glorious libraries, Bihar has slowly lost many of them. Today, only 51 remain, while six districts do not have even a single one.
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