State Formation in Early Modern Orissa [India]: Ecology and Geopolitics in Sambalpur Kingdom
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This paper aims to find how ecological and geopolitical potentiality of Sambalpur region played vital roles in the formation of state in early modern Orissa. The study also endeavors to inquire how the state has taken a leaf out of the pan-Indian Empires, which were passing through a series of political crises, to establish the formidable Sambalpur kingdom. The findings of the study suggest that the state had systematically gained control over the productive land, natural resources and geo-political strategic positioning of western Orissa. The state had also take advantage of the on-going political crises of the period to penetrate into the wider ecological region of western Orissa and eastern Chhattisgarh.
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