Census of India 1951 — Orissa

of the Orissa Administrative Service who as Deputy Superintendent of my office gave me ungrudging help in the prepartion of the District Census Handbooks and Shri Sriramam.urti of the Orissa Subordinate Administrative Service who apart from being useful in his capacity as Assistant Superintendent of the Tabulation Office was placed in charge of the final stages of the operation at the headquar [...] There are also some smaller rivers namely the Salandi the Burabalang and the Subarnarekha flowing over the northern part of the State and the Rushikulya the Vansdhara the Nagavali the Indravati the Kolab and the Machkund draining the districts of Ganjam and Koraput in the south. [...] The most noted kings are Lalatendu Kesari the builder of the Bhubaneswar temple about the middle of the 9th century Anangabhima Deva II the builder of the Jagannath temple at Puri towards the close of the I2th century Narasimha Deva the builder of the Konarka temple about the middle of the 13th century and Mukunda Deva the builder of the Barabati Fort in the second half of the 16th century. [...] At the height of their powers the kings of the mighty kingdom of Kalinga ruled over the territory extending from the banks of the Godavari on the south to the Ganges on the north. [...] One of the first tasks of the Government of the newly constituted province was to reconcile different systems of administration obtaining in the old districts of Orissa in the eMadras areas now constituted into two districts and in the portion of the Central Provinces which was added to the district of Sambalpur.