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Jayakrushna Rajaguru Mohapatra, (better known to the Indian public as Jayi Rajaguru) the royal preceptor to Mukunda Dev II (who at the time was still a minor) mobilised an army of Paika warriors and led a revolt against the East India Company in 1804, which was the first uprising against British rule in Orissa. However, the Presidency armies ...
Possible extent of the Nanda Empire under its last ruler Dhana Nanda. The Nanda empire appears to have stretched from present-day Punjab in the west to Odisha (Kalinga) in the east. [35] Nandas control of Kalinga region is corroborated by the Hathigumpha inscription of the later king Kharavela (c. 2nd or 1st century BCE). [36]
In 1803, Maratha ceded Orissa to the British empire. The Rajas and other local chieftains lead a series of rebellions against the British. Notable among the rebellions is that of Surendra Sai. [19] Odia speaking people at this time were placed in different provinces. Around 1870, a movement was started to unify the Oriya-speaking within a state.
As per B. Masthanaiah, the origin of the Eastern Gangas is not clearly established. However, renowned British scholar, artist, art critic, historian, archaeologist, and an authority on Indian art and architecture, Percy Brown, suggested that the temples of Mukhalingam predated the temples of Bhubaneswar (this is unexplained as Bhubaneswar contains several temples predating Mukhalingam) and had ...
Odisha (English: / ə ˈ d ɪ s ə /; [19] Odia: ⓘ), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), [20] is a state located in Eastern India. It is the eighth-largest state by area , and the eleventh-largest by population , with over 41 million inhabitants.
The Orissa Tributary States, also known as the Gadajats (ଗଡ଼ଜାତ) [1] and as the Orissa Feudatory States, [2] were a group of princely states of British India now part of the present-day Indian state of Odisha. The Orissa Tributary States were located in the Garhjat Hills, the hilly and former heavily forested region of eastern ...
But continued aggression of the Bengal sultanate from the north and Vijayanagara and Bahmani empires from the south weakened the Gajapati empire. Ultimately, Ramai Deva, a Chauhan Rajput from North India, founded Chauhan rule in western Orissa. According to the details placed in all the contemporary literary accounts, Ramai Deva was born to one ...
Tosali or Toshali was an ancient city in the present day Odisha state in eastern India.It was the capital of the eastern province of the Kalinga Kingdom. [1] While some scholars tried to identify this ancient city with Dhauli, 7 km away from Bhubaneshwar, [2] other scholars were inclined to identify this city with Shishupalgarh, 5 km away from Bhubaneshwar.