Presented to:
Monika
Chaudhary
Presented By:
G.niket
bhandari

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Located on the eastern coast of India.
At 17° 49' North - 22°0 34' North Latitude &
81° 29' East-87° 29' East Longitude.
Adjacent to Madhya Pradesh in the west,
Andhra Pradesh in the south, West Bengal
in north-east, Bay of Bengal in the east and
Bihar in the north.
Area = 1,55,707 Sq. Km.
LOCATION

 Capital of Orissa is Bhubaneswar.
 Language spoken is Oriya.
Orissa consists of 30
districts.

 The ancient name was Kalinga.
 Controlled and traded with most of the sea routes in the
Bay of Bengal.
 Mahapadmanabh of Nanda dynasty who ascended the
throne of Magadha in 362 B. C. conquered and instituted
Kalinga to his extensive empire.
 Kalinga became economically prosperous under the
Nanda rule.

Orissa has many ancient names
like :
 Kalinga
 Utkal
 Utkalraata
 Udra
 Odra
 Odrabisha
Trikalinga
Koshala
Kangoda
Toshali
Chedi (Mahabharata)
Matsa (Mahabharata)

 DANCE
 MUSIC
 ART AND CRAFT
 SAND ART

 ‘Odissi’ is the classical dance of Orissa.
 Originally developed in the temple of Lord Jagannath.
 This dance has been closely connected with the day to
day activities of the temples.
 Strongly linked with the religious movements of Orissa.

 Gained recognition in early 60s.
 The dance form nearly went extinct during the British
period.
 Before that, there were devadasi nritya and gotipua nritya.

 Chhau dance (or Chau dance)
 Sambalpuri dance originated from the western region of
Orissa.
 Tribal dance in the district of Koraput known as dhemsa
dance.

 Odissi music is a combination of four distinctive kinds of
music namely: Chitrapada, Dhruvapada, Panchal and
Chitrakala.
 A unique feature of Oriya music is the Padi, which
consists of singing of words in fast beat.
 the five broad categories of oriya music are Tribal Music,
Folk music, Light Music, Light-Classical Music and
Classical Music.

 The pipili work and the silver filigree work at Cuttack
Filigree Work

The Sambalpuri textiles is
famous for its artistic
grandeur.
Artistic
grandeur

The handloom sarees available in Orissa can
be of four major types; these are Ikat,
Bandha, Bomkai and Pasapalli.
Pasapalli sarees
Bandha sarees
Ikat sarees

 Pata painting is considered an important form of Orissan painting which
originated from the temple of Jagannath at Puri in the 12th century.

 A unique type of art form is developed at Puri.
 To carve a sand sculpture, the raw material is the only
clean and fine-grained sand mixed with water.
 Poet Balaram Das is famous for his sand art of Lord
Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra.
 Sudarshan Pattnaik is one of the famous sand artists of
the present time.

 Major Jagannath Temple Festivals include Rath Yatra
 Special Festivals include Konark Festival, Puri Beach
festival, Rajarani Music Festival, Kalinga Mahotsav,
Ekamra Utsav,Shreekshetra Utsav
 Tribal Fairs and Festivals include Bali Yatra,Chaita
Parava