Sambalpur

Sambalpur is a beautiful city.

We had a lot of fun in Sambalpur last weekend.

What Jane Austen has done in English fiction, Meher did in Oriya poetry—making a miniature but highly finished filigree work of the little world in which he lived. He has sung of the natural beauties of Sambalpur, his native district, as was never done before. The small hill of Budharaja that over-looks the city of Sambalpur and the famous river Mahanadi that flows past it, the Hirakud Island now celebrated for the enormous hydro-electric project established by the Government of India—all these, besides other notable places of interest in Orissa, have been immortalised in the lines of this weaver.

1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, Sahitya Akademi, page 202

Kosala the territory of king Mahendra, is without doubt the same as South Kosala comprising the modern districts of Bilaspur and Raipur in Madhya Pradesh and the district of Sambalpur in Orissa.

1964, Nabin Kumar Sahu, Utkal University History Of Orissa, volume 1, The Utkal University, page 432

In 1849 when Sambalpur was annexed to British empire, Ranjit Singh and his son Gobinda were released.

2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events, 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 228