History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c44.140

v2.c44.140

The earlier part of British rule in Orissa is a long record of the sufferings of the poor people from natural calamities and from the callousness of the earlier generations of British Administrators. The only redeeming feature in the period following the Mutiny is the spread of education in which at the beginning European ministers of the Christian Gospel played the leading part. After the establishment of the Calcutta University the educated and liberal-minded Bengali appeared in a new role in Orissa. He went as he had gone to Bihar, the United Provinces, the Punjab, Rajputana, and Central India and the Northern portion of the Central Provinces as the pioneer of Western education and culture. Bengali teachers conferred great benefit on the people of Orissa and many an educated Oriyā gratefully remembers the kindness, infinite tact and above all the vast learning of many Bengali teachers and professors.