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.'''Behea''' or '''Bihiya''' (historically spelled in British sources as '''Bihiā''') is a nagar panchayat town and Block in [[Bhojpur district, India|Bhojpur district]] in the Indian state of [[Bihar]]. Historically, it was a seat of the [[Harihobans|Harihoban]] [[Rajput|Rajputs]] and later, in the colonial era, became the headquarters of the influential Bihiā Estate. The town is particularly notable for the 19th-century invention of the Bihiā Mill, a bullock-powered sugar mill that became widely adopted.<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Bihar District Census Handbook - Bhojpur, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/BiharA.html |access-date=1 April 2020 |website=Census 2011 India |pages=42, 46–47, 51–55, 59–61, 63, 71–84, 90, 92, 94, 752, 808–809}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=O'Malley |first=Lewis Sydney Steward |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Shahabad/R0_RAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22shahabad+district%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover |title=Shahabad |date=1906 |publisher=Bengal Secretariat Book Departmentôt |language=en}}</ref> |
.'''Behea''' or '''Bihiya''' (historically spelled in British sources as '''Bihiā''' or '''Beheea'''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Thornton |first=J. H. |date=1874-06-01 |title=Report on Cholera in the Shahabad District |url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5128170/ |journal=The Indian Medical Gazette |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=146–147 |issn=0019-5863 |pmc=5128170 |pmid=28995022}}</ref>) is a nagar panchayat town and Block in [[Bhojpur district, India|Bhojpur district]] in the Indian state of [[Bihar]]. Historically, it was a seat of the [[Harihobans|Harihoban]] [[Rajput|Rajputs]] and later, in the colonial era, became the headquarters of the influential Bihiā Estate. The town is particularly notable for the 19th-century invention of the Bihiā Mill, a bullock-powered sugar mill that became widely adopted.<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Bihar District Census Handbook - Bhojpur, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/BiharA.html |access-date=1 April 2020 |website=Census 2011 India |pages=42, 46–47, 51–55, 59–61, 63, 71–84, 90, 92, 94, 752, 808–809}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=O'Malley |first=Lewis Sydney Steward |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Shahabad/R0_RAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22shahabad+district%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover |title=Shahabad |date=1906 |publisher=Bengal Secretariat Book Departmentôt |language=en}}</ref> |
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==History== |
==History== |