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Odia cuisine possesses a rich repertoire of delicacies savoured over the centuries in households, temples and royal palaces. In order to appreciate Odia cuisine, one must have a fair idea about its history. Odias were brave maritime people who sailed to far away lands in the South and South East Asia for trade and commerce. This inevitably led to cross cultural flows which had effects on Oriya cooking. The treasure of Odia cuisine being varied and vast, it ...
The Madalapanji or the palm leaf chronicles are the historical diaries of the Jagannath Temple of Puri. They describe the historical events of Orissa related to Lord Jagannath. Though the actual date of starting of the Madalapanji is not known, it is believed that it might be started from" the 13th or 14th Century AD. The work is a classic and literary master piece of the first order, parallel to which very few vernacular works of India. It can be compared ...
In 1868, the Government of India, at the suggestion of the Royal Society of Arts, London, assigned a large sum of money for the purpose of obtaining casts of some of the more important sculptures of ancient India. To carry out this object, a part of the sum was made over to the Government of Bengal, leaving it to make its own selection of the subjects, which it might think were likely to be the most interesting, and best calculated to fulfil the object of ...