Orissa in the Making

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About the Book The author has been engaged for decades in research work dedicated with the early history of Orissa. He has taken a great interest in the collection and decipherment of the copper plate inscription of its ancient rulers.

The author has dealt with the entire ancient dynasty and has concluded that Orissa took its present shapes during the rule of Kosala Gupta's.

The book also deals with the expansion of Kalinga Empire and finally its dissolution. The author finally concludes that the Kosala Gupta's were the makers of Orissa.

Foreword Colonialism worldover has tempered with the study of history of small and remote regions, ethnic and original populace and linkage of evolution with composing constituents. Today it is a recognized fact that each society had a right to know, study and cherish its history based on variable research and documentation and through presentation of historical data and study of possibilities in absence of exact variables in form of personalities, migration, war and socio-cultural patterns.

Preface The following pages which embody almost entirely the result of the personal research of the author are intended to constitute rather a source-book than a story of Orissa for popular readers. Consistently with the scope of this work, as the title of it will indicate, the history of fully organized Orissa of the time of the Muslim Rulers (1568-1570) and of the time of the Maratha supremacy (1750-1803), could not be taken up for narration. How and when several tracts of dissimilar ethnic character did come into the composition of Orissa as it now stands by accepting an Aryan Vernacular as the dominating speech for the whole province, is the thesis which has been sought to be worked out.