ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) in the context of the issues pertaining to Orissa. Reconstructing the boundaries of the federal units on language basis was the focus of the SRC. To impress the SRC about one’s linguistic identity and the desired geographical outline thereof often led to conflicts between ambitious groups, and on occasions literature became a vehicle of confrontation. The study however warrants that the Oriya movement of the nineteenth and twentieth century prior to the SRC is placed in its perspective. With the feeling that the unjust provincial boundaries needed to be realigned in order to preserve the language, culture and the historical connection, the Oriya movement took off undeterred by the competitive reactions of its neighbouring provinces. However, the most painful memory that continued to haunt the Oriyas was the loss of Seraikella and Kharswan.
