Orissa

Orissa was an Eastern Ganga kingdom on the Bay of Bengal, ruled from Kataka. In 1337 Narasimha Deva III held the throne, with coastal rajas as feudatories.

In 1435 the minister Kapilendra Deva seized the crown and founded the Gajapati dynasty. Bengal’s Sulaiman Khan Karrani conquered the kingdom in 1568. After Mughal rule, Maratha raids forced its cession to Raghoji Bhonsle of Nagpur in 1751. British troops captured Cuttack and the province in 1803 during the Second Anglo-Maratha War.