The Rhythms of Change and Devastation: Colonial Capitalism and the World of the Socially Excluded in Orissa

[...]certain representative features and themes are examined to illustrate the way in which the colonisation of the region impacted both the coastal tract and the western interior, when it comes to the tribals and the outcastes. Jagannatha's) mobile representative ('chalanta Vishnu'). [...]Orissa's colonisation symbolised the very process of integration of the 'sacred' with the 'profane' - a very essential component that drew upon legitimacy for colonial expansion under the English East India Company.