Orissa

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Proper noun

Orissa

1. Former name of Odisha: A state in eastern India.
   • 1822, Andrew Stirling, An Account, Geographical, Statistical and Historical of Orissa Proper, or Cuttack‎^[1], page 94:

     It is of the fourth and probably least important race of Hindu monarchs of the middle ages, the Gajapatis of Orissa, that I propose to offer an account in this part of my paper; but to render the chapter complete, I shall add a sketch of the history of the province down to the date of the British conquest, A. D. 1803.

   • 1872, William Wilson Hunter, Orissa: Or the Vicissitudes of an Indian Province Under Native and British Rule‎^[2], Elder and Company, page 122:

     The English Government has respected the patrimony of Jagannáth not less scrupulously than it has conserved the general religious endowments of Orissa.

   • 1873, George Toynbee, A Sketch of the History of Orissa from 1803 to 1828‎^[3], Bengal Secretariat Press, page 1:

     Although, however, it may possess no special importance in the eyes of the general reader, its every detail is full of interest to those who have passed several years in the province of Orissa, and have learned to appreciate and sympathise with its people.

   • 1921, B. C. Mazumdar, Typical Selections From Oriya Literature‎^[4], volume 1, The University of Calcutta, page 18:

     The changes, with which Huen Tsiang makes us familiar, should be duly noted here, for we find that when the Chinese traveller visited Orissa and Ganjam, the rude people of Utkala and Orissa freely flowed into the sea-board tract of Orissa, and the people of Kalinga speaking a Dravidian speech were limited within the confines of the country which has got the designation Andhra Deśa to-day.

   • 1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature‎^[5], Sahitya Akademi, page 58:

     Such is the way this great rustic poet of Orissa has handled the epic heroes and heroines in his own deeply realistic, flesh and blood manner, with his keen peasant eyes fixed on life close to the earth he lived on, caring little for romantic idealism or philosophical ethics.

   • 1964, Nabin Kumar Sahu, Utkal University History Of Orissa‎^[6], volume 1, The Utkal University, page 3:

     The ancient Kalinga, the fame of which, at one time, spread over the entire South Asia lies now partly in Andhra and partly in Orissa.

   • 1967, A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India‎^[7], Taplinger Publishing Company, page 62:

     Meanwhile new kingdoms had been set up in the Peninsula. In Orissā a great conqueror, Khāravela, appeared in the latter half of the 1st century B.C.; he raided far and wide over India and was a great patron of Jainism; but his empire was short-lived, and we know nothing of his successor.

   • 2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events‎^[8], 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 12:

     It was under the Ganga rule that the Oriya language as an Oriya vernacular became the dominant medium of communication in Orissa.

Related terms

• Oriya

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• orisas

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Proper noun

Orissa f

1. Odisha (a state in eastern India)