SOCIAL IDEALS AND PATRIOTISM IN

ORIYA LITERATURE. (1900-1930)

-MANORANJAN DAS
Causes of Partiotism:

1.Printing press
2.Communication network
3.Industrialization
4.urbanization
French Revolution and Industrial Revolution Plays a vital
role.

• Spirit of Humanism
• Liberty and equality
• Self consciousness
• Renaissance spirit of Humanism and French Revolutionary
spirit of Liberty found their way into Literature.
• Bande Matram and unity- mystic love for motherland.
• Literature turns its face from the idea of humanism to the
mystic love for motherland.
• Patriotisms in literature.
• Oriya Literature and the rise of the Patriotism.

• Self consciousness and love for own

• Modern Oriya Literature was born with Patriotism.

• The notable trio: Fakirmohan Senapati, Radha nath Roy and Madhusudan Rao.
• Spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity into their literatue.
• New Literary form: Odes, Ballads and Sonnets and the various prose form
• Sympathy for Mother tongue and Mother Land.
• No Direct Encounter with the Britishers.
Fakirmohan Senapati

• Socialistic approach in Literatutre

• Story of the common people

• Against the Bourgeois

• Internal problems and external opposition

• Humanitarian values
Radhanath Roy

• Description of beauty and elegance of Nature

• Partiotic theme
• Critical of society through satires
• Socialistic approach
• His epic “Maharaja”
Madhusudan Rao

• A reformer and the Poet

• Infused moral into his writing
• Pariotic writing for motherland.
Gangadhar Mehera (1862-1924), Nanda Kishore Bal
(1875 1928) and Chintamani Mohanti (1867-1943 )

• Finest poetic art for the common people

• Rural life
• Nature beauty
• New problems arises and the birth of new narrative
• Group of young intellectuals
• Building of new Orissa and new Literature
• Socialism turns to nationalism
• Pandit Gopalbandhu Das
Utkalmani Gopalbandhu Das

• Nationalism in Poem also the idea of socialisms.

• Satyabadi Group
• Idea of self sacrifice
• Intensity of Nationalism
• Idea of rebellious movement
• Objective
• Optimism
• Mass Literature
Satyabadi group and their new narrative in Literature:

• True spirit of Patriotism

• Idea of deep Nationalism

• Idea of self respect and and self confidence

• New Narrative and Gandhian Philosophy

• Rebellious idea

• Idea of self sacrifice for the sake of country

• New awakening self consciousness and identity.