By Anand Sagar Dash.
Sambalpuri, the main communicative language in 10 districts of Western Odisha and Eastern part of Chhattisgarh was branded as a dialect of Odia language in deceitful manner, during the first Linguistic survey of India conducted under George Grierson in then British India. However, Grierson has mentioned that he has not visited the area and he is supplied with the data by his representatives.
He was informed that the language spoken in a region, Raigarh in North and Kalahandi in South, and Raipur in West and Bamanda in East is exactly the same. This is the region of West Odisha and Eastern Chhattisgarh where Sambalpuri is the mother tongue of more than 10 million people approx. In 2011 census 26,30,381 people have registered their mother tongue as Sambalpuri.
But, at the same time some people with a hidden agenda in mind to bring this region under Odisha fold had misinformed him about the language spoken in Sambalpur region as the exactly same language as that of Puri and Cuttack area. See the above image provided here as proof, which was supplied to Mr Grierson as the language sample from then Kalahandi princely state. This was the translation of "Parable of the Prodigal Son" used as a standard to judge during Linguistic Survey of India. The sample provided from Kalahandi state was no where close to the Sambalpuri language spoken in Western Odisha. It was the written form (not spoken anywhere in Odisha) of Odia, sent to Dr Grierson as the spoken language of West Odisha by concealing the truth.
See this video to know more about this deceitful act of hiding truth to suppress a full fledged language like Sambalpuri. This is a perfect example of historical blunder. This must be rectified and status of Sambalpuri language must be raised with facts. Truth can not be hidden for ever.
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