In late 1870 a Bengali intellectual wrote a 100 page thesis , 'oriya swatantra bhasha nahe' (odiya not a separate language) . it spurred the odiya nationalism creating separate odisha state by 1936 !
In late 1870 a Bengali intellectual wrote a 100 page thesis , 'oriya swatantra bhasha nahe' (odiya not a separate language) . it spurred the odiya nationalism creating separate odisha state by 1936 !