Orissa in the Making

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Orissa in the Making

1925

The northern boundary line of the Oriya-speaking zone runs from a point on theORISSA IN THE tAKING 5 sea-shore at the north-east corner of the district of Balasore to the north-west corner of the I'eudatory State of Gangpur by demarcating the southern boundary of the districts of Midnapur and Ranchi. [...] The Baitarani rises among the hills in the soutwest of Keonjhar State and forms during part of its course the boundary between this State and the State of Maurbhanj The Brahman is formed by the confluence of the South Koel and Sank at P5nRosh in the Nara Zemindary of the GAngpur State ; after a course which is un-navigable owing to extensive rock-barriers;"10 ORISSA IN THE MAKING and rapids of [...] The portion of the district lying along the coast of the Bay of Bengal with the12 ORISSA IN THE MAKING background of the Eastern-ghats differs from the rest of the district in the north and in the west both in physical aspect and ethnic character„ The hilly outskirts of the Oriya Feudatory States of Ka%handl Patna Baud Daspalla and Nayagarh form almost in a semi-circle the northern limit of [...] Chapter III THE KALINGA EMPIRE AND ITS DISSOLUTION The mythical account we get in the Maliiblifirata as well tts in the Puranas about the origin of the Angas the Bangas the Pundras the Sumbas and the Kalingas purports to declare30 ORISSA IN THE MAKING that these peoples belonged to one ethnic group of the Dravidians. [...] In the 5th verse of the 6th canto of the Raghu-Vamga the lord of Kalinga has been described as the lord of the sea as well as of the Mahendraziri of the Easterghats.

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Pages
277
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145783
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii B.C. Mazumdar view
Frontmatter
i-xiii B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter I.Introduction
1-11 B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter II.Kalinga as Distinguished from the Highlands of Orissa
11-29 B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter III.The Kalinga Empire and its Dissolution
29-62 B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter IV.A Note on the Hatigumpha Inscriptions of King Kharavel
63-97 B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter V.The Rulers of the Dark age of Orissa
98-117 B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter VI
118-154 B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter VII.The Kosala Guptas
154-193 B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter VIII. Other Rulers of the Formative Period
194-216 B.C. Mazumdar view
Chapter IX.The Sambalpur Tract in Orissa
217-247 B.C. Mazumdar view

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