History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c11.46
History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c11.46
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The people of Eastern Bengal, Northern Bengal and Kaliṅga were, therefore, regarded in the time of the Sūtras as being altogether out of the pale of Aryan civilisation and among them the people of Kaliṅga obtained a slight preference. So, while the people of Bengal were regarded as untouchables and were not spoken to or touched by the Aryans, the people of Kaliṅga were not so. We have no means to determine for what reasons the Aryan lord condescended to confer this distinction on the dark Dravidian of Kaliṅga; but it is there in the Sūtra literature and cannot be denied.