Orissa

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Orissa

1. Former name of Odisha: A state in eastern India.
   • 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 [...]‎^[1], volume 1, T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, page 53:

     The firſt had conſtantly reſided with his father at Cuttack, the capital of Oriſſa, and the other, with his grandfather at Morſhadabad.

   • 1787, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Articles of Charge of High Crimes and miſdemeanors, against [...]‎^[2], J. Debrett, page 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 [...]

   • 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^[3], A. Constable, page 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.

   • 1811, Claudius Buchanan, Christian Researches in Asia: With Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures Into the Oriental Languages‎^[4], 2 edition, Samuel T. Armstrong, page 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."

   • 1822, Andrew Stirling, An Account, Geographical, Statistical and Historical of Orissa Proper, or Cuttack‎^[5], 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^[6], 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^[7], 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^[8], 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^[9], 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^[10], 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^[11], 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^[12], 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.

• Oriya

• orisas

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1. Odisha (a state in eastern India)