Orissa

orissa English Etymology en or ଓଡ଼ିଶା, in turn en sa ओड्रदेश land of the Odras, a compound of sa ओड्र देश Odra land, country 1. Proper noun en Odisha: en Odisha Q22048. en 1765 John Zephaniah Holwell Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan: With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the [...] https://books.google.co.in/books?id=s_0RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt 1 53 The firſt had conſtantly reſided with his father at Cuttack, the capital of Oriſſa, and the other, with his grandfather at Morſhadabad. en 1787 Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Articles of Charge of High Crimes and miſdemeanors, against [...] https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_proceedings-1787-12-12_great-britain-parliamen_1787/page/n54/mode/1up J. Debrett 53 THAT as the different Provincial Councils, eſtabliſhed in the ſaid Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Oriſſa, had been ever ſince their Eſtabliſhment accuſtomed to refer Cauſes of great Moment and Importance, particularly [...] en 1809 James Maitland Earl Of Lauderdale An Inquiry Into the Practical Merits of the System for the Government of India, Under the Superintendence of the Board of. Controul https://archive.org/details/inquiryintopract00laudiala/page/21/mode/1up A. Constable 21 To the Government of Bengal they had repeatedly announced their determination not to aim at any power or possessions, but what was held in virtue of the Mogul's grants, and confined within the boundaries of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa. en 1811 Claudius Buchanan Christian Researches in Asia: With Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures Into the Oriental Languages https://archive.org/details/christianresear01horngoog/page/n34/mode/1up Samuel T. Armstrong 2 34 "The languages spoken here are various, as there are Hindoos from every country in India: but the two chief languages in use by those who are resident, are the Orissa and the Telinga. The border of the Telinga Country is only a few miles distant from the Tower of Juggernaut." en 1822 Andrew Stirling An Account, Geographical, Statistical and Historical of Orissa Proper, or Cuttack https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7764/page/93/mode/1up 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. en 1872 William Wilson Hunter Orissa: Or the Vicissitudes of an Indian Province Under Native and British Rule https://archive.org/details/orissa00unkngoog/page/n144/mode/1up Elder and Company 122 The English Government has respected the patrimony of Jagannáth not less scrupulously than it has conserved the general religious endowments of Orissa. en 1873 George Toynbee A Sketch of the History of Orissa from 1803 to 1828 https://archive.org/details/asketchhistoryo00benggoog/page/n11/mode/1up Bengal Secretariat Press 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. en 1921 B. C. Mazumdar Typical Selections From Oriya Literature 1 https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.9274/page/n17/mode/1up The University of Calcutta 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. en 1960 Mayadhar Mansinha History of Oriya Literature https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.13018/page/58/mode/1up Sahitya Akademi 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. en 1964 Nabin Kumar Sahu Utkal University History Of Orissa https://archive.org/details/utkaluniversityh0000nksa/page/n11/mode/1up The Utkal University 1 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. en 1967 A. L. Basham The Wonder That Was India Taplinger Publishing Company https://archive.org/details/wonderthatwasind00alba/page/62/mode/1up 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. en 2008 Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events 2 https://archive.org/details/orissa-an-encyclopaedia-of-events-2008/page/n13/mode/1up Sankalpa Publications 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 en Oriya Descendants ru Ори́сса 1 Further reading Anagrams en aiorss orisas Portuguese Proper noun f pt Odisha Q22048