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Karate in Bihar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ137917950 ↗
Source-derived summary

Karate in the Indian state of Bihar is overseen by the State Karate Association of Bihar which is affiliated to the Karate India Organisation and recognized by the Bihar Olympic Association.

Karate has been growing in popularity across Bihar, particularly among the youth, and is practised both for self-defence and as a competitive sport.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Karate, Bihar and Open-knowledge is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Karate in Bihar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.