India, Nov. 10 -- These pages have dealt with the importance of caste in Bihar's political competition in detail on the basis of two databases - a historical database of Bihar's 3629 MLAs from 1962-2020 and 498 candidates of the two major alliances in the 2025 election - prepared by the first author of this story. They have also married these statistics along with other statistics on Bihar to build a larger political economy narrative in another three-part series. This analysis was facilitated by the fact that Bihar is the only state which has disaggregated data of a recent vintage at the sub-caste or jati level thanks to the caste survey conducted by the Government of Bihar in 2023. While the caste-survey data is extremely useful in maki...