Mogolbandi Oriyas

aryan oriyas hailing from the fertile & prosperous mogolbandi orissa, the eastern, coastal plains of orissa. as
opposed to the garjatia oriyas, who hail from the remote & inaccessible mountainous garjatia orissa.

mogolbandi oriyas are distinguished from other oriyas by their speaking the prestigious mughalbandi oriya dialect
(considered the best dialect & hence called “standard” oriya), the refined iranianate or persianate influence on
their civilization, the higher percentage of prakrit & sanskrit words, the greater number of aryan brahmins, the
lower percentage of shudras & adivasis, & the consequent weaker influence of dravidian & kolarian culture.
mogolbandi oriyas are extremely proud of all these aspects of their culture. in terms of religion, most mogolbandi
oriyas follow jagannath vaishnavism, with mogolbandi oriya muslims comprising a small but visible fraction of the
population, along with a few animist & shaivite dravido-kolarian shabaras (negroid-australoid aboriginals).

the plural of mogolbandi is “mogolbandiyya”, & connotes mogolbandi or mughalbandi oriyas.
1) “the identification for the oriyas is almost in the same lines, except for the hierarchised terms which for the
others are: ana-oria – ‘non-oriya’, pascima or hindustani ‘northerners’, telenga ‘southerners’, bangali
‘bengali’, and for the self are: oria ‘oriya’, mogolbandi ‘oriyas from the british ruled orissa’, and garjatia
‘oriyas from the feudatory states of orissa'” (ethnicity, nationalism, and integration’, ajit k. danda. calcutta:
asiatic society, 1999, p.59)

2) bapa (father): my jheo (girl), promise me you won’t marry an uncouth garjatia oriya!
jheo: of course not! i will only marry one of our own civilized mogolbandi oriyas!

3) pranab mohanty: you should stop going around with that rough garjatia toki (girl) suneeta sahoo!
santosh panda: don’t worry, she is just time-p-ss! i will marry one of our fine mogolbandi tokis in the end!