Synopsis Comprehensive History and Culture of Orissa, two volumes (four parts), is an epoch making work in Indian historiography, which for the first time brings under focus the achievements of the Oriya-speaking people in the Indian contest. Almost all the leading scholars of the State have joined together to record the results of their years' of painstaking and meaningful research in a succinct and lucid manner with great objectivity and scholarly insight. Topics on sources, prehistory, history, culture, maritime trade, polity, social history, impact of Islam and Christian missionaries, agrarian problems, economic growth, tribal society, language and literature, growth and evolution of modern administration, education, nationalism, search for identity and every other aspect of human activities have been discussed in their true historical perspective. Designed in the model of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan series on History and Culture of the Indian People, these volumes represent the results of latest research on respective areas.