Gourishankar Ray
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Karmabira Gourishankar Ray |
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| Born |
13 July 1838 Dixitpada, Asureswar, Cuttack |
| Died | 7 March 1917 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Home town | Cuttack, Odisha |
| Website | http://karmaveergourishankar.info/ |
Gourishankar Ray, better known as Karmaveer Gourishankar, a prominent figure among-st the Makers of Modern Orissa (Odisha) as well as the savior of Odia (Oriya) Language and Literature, who led the Save Oriya Movement during the late nineteenth century working relentlessly for the protection and preservation of the Odia language. He was a Bengali from East Bengal from a Zamindar family at a time when an anti Oriya movement rocked the province to replace it by Bengali in the coastal, Hindi in the western and Telegu in the southern Orissa which ultimately was thwarted and Oriya was given its due place.
He was the father of the co-operative movements as well as printing & publishing crafts in Orissa (Odisha). He founded the Cuttack Printing Company and Edited Utkal Deepika, the first Oriya newspaper to be printed as a weekly in 1866. Utkal Deepika owed its birth to the upsurge of nationalism playing a significant role in sociopolitical life of Orissa.
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