Bhubaneswar: Culture minister Ashok Chandra Panda inaugurated an exhibition of photographs, sketches and newspaper reports on the great Orissa famine of 1866 on the premises of Odisha State Archives ...

Bhubaneswar: ‘Na’Anka Durbhikshya’ or the Odisha Famine of 1866 killed over a million people in eastern India. However, not much is known about this famine and it also finds no mention in ...

150 years after catastrophic famine wiped out a third of the population of coastal Odisha during 1865-66, the calamity has for the first time been documented by the State Government.

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Archives will publish a book compiling archival records on the devastating Orissa Famine of 1865-66. At least a million people, about a third of the population then ...

BHUBANESWAR: ‘Na’Anka Durbhikshya’ or the Odisha Famine of 1866 killed over a million people in eastern India. However, not much is known about this famine and it also finds no mention in ...

Sahadeva Sahoo, a former Odisha chief secretary, is one such alumnus. He attributes Ravenshaw's failure during the famine to infrastructural and logistical issues.

The 1886 famine in Orissa state killed over a million people and galvanised Indians into fighting against British colonial rule, writes historian Dinyar Patel. BBC Homepage.

I extend my thanks to Kanakalatha Mukund for her review of my book, A Haunting Tragedy: Gender, Caste and Class in the 1866 Famine of Orissa (EPW, 15 July 2023), commenting on the different chapters ...

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Archives will publish a book compiling archival records on the devastating Orissa Famine of 1865-66. At least a million people, about a third of the population then ...