culture orisa
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Presented to: Monika Chaudhary
Presented By: G.niket bhandari
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
ABOUT THE STATE Capital of Orissa is Bhubaneswar.
Language spoken is Oriya.
Orissa consists of 30 districts.
HISTORY 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.
ANCIENT NAMESOrissa has many ancient names like : Kalinga Utkal Utkalraata Udra Odra Odrabisha
Trikalinga Koshala Kangoda Toshali Chedi (Mahabharata) Matsa (Mahabharata)
CULTURE DANCE
MUSIC
ART AND CRAFT
SAND ART
CLASSICAL DANCE ‘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.
Origin of Odissi
Gained recognition in early 60s.
The dance form nearly went extinct during the British period.
Before that, there were devadasi nritya and gotipua nritya.
FOLK DANCE 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.
MUSIC 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.
ART AND CRAFT 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 sareesIkat sarees
Pata painting is considered an important form of Orissan painting which originated from the temple of Jagannath at Puri in the 12th century.
SAND ART 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.
FESTIVALS 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
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