son of the soil

plural sons of the soil

1. A person regarded as the product of some place.

   I hold it to be true, that the people are the sons of the soil; and we are only their instruments here.

   1850, Oliver P. Badger, convention member from Putnam, Indiana, Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, 1850 Volume 1, page 827

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   The highlight will be the Odia authors and sons of the soil who worked on the language during the period beginning from 15th century poet and scholar Sarala Das till 1947, and their literary contributions.

   2025 October 10, “Balijatra to celebrate classical Odia language, its authors in 2025”, in The New Indian Express

2. poeticA man raised in an environment of agricultural labour.