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Title: Rethinking Kosli Identity: Language, Literature and Culture of Western Odisha
Other Titles: SOCIAL TRENDS Vol. 5 March 2018 p.39-63
Authors: Kumar, Tila
Keywords: Western Odisha
Koshal
Kosli
Sambalpuri
Odia
Language
Dialect
Culture
Identity
Region
Nation
Nationality
State
Issue Date: Mar-2018
Publisher: University of North Bengal
Abstract: Western Odisha’ once upon a time, formed a part of the ancient Koshal kingdom having its distinctive history, culture and unique salient features. The proponents of the separate Koshal state movement which is going on in the western part of Odisha have been mobilizing people and spearheading their movement along such a historic path so as to bring back their golden past and to preserve, protect and promote their rich cultural heritage. The people of western Odisha living in as many as eleven different districts not only ascertain their common ancestry but also share their common fate of being backward and underdeveloped due to ‘internal colonialism’ including state apathy and ‘coastal conspiracy’. Nevertheless, they are struggling and mobilizing forcefully to deconstruct their stigmatized identity and asserting today a unique ‘Kosli identity’, which is increasingly being recognized world over. And it is this ‘Kosli identity’ - which the leaders of the Koshal movement are using to garner people’s support and galvanize Kosli consciousness and ‘Kosli nationalism’ - the emblematic chord of the demand for a separate Kosal state. It is, therefore, that we discuss in the present article, some of the significant markers of what constitute Kosli identity in terms of a) Kosli language and literature and b) Kosli culture.
URI: http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3509
ISSN: 2348-6538
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