The Book Historians and Historiography of Orissa: A Study in Perception and
Appropriation of Orissan History is the result of the authors years of
painstaking research in the area of Orissan historiography. The broad contours,
parameters and the detours of historiographical perception of Orissan history
right from the ancient period till the modern has been comprehensively drawn
which remained till the present a more or less unexplored area. Besides
historiography of the ancient and medieval period, the modern historiography of
Orissa which began with the British period, has been analysed broadly under such
categories as Orientalist-colonialist, nationalist, biased and sober historical
writings. Further since the Raj remained, all