Exhibition On Great Odisha Famine Of 1866 At Cuttack Club 

Exhibition On Great Odisha Famine Of 1866 At Cuttack Club 

The epochal famine of 1866, called Na’anka Durbhiksha’, had its epicentre in Cuttack and its adjoining areas. Nearly half a million people had died in this region and over four million had perished in the entire Odisha. While the impact of the famine was severe in and around Cuttack, the tragedy was a clarion call to awaken the Indians against the British Raj.

The Cuttack Chapter of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), in collaboration with the Cuttack Club, has organised a two-day exhibition to mark the 156th anniversary of the Great Odisha Famine of 1866 on 18th and 19th June, 2022.

Never-seen-before photographs, sketches and facsimiles of newspaper reportage of the famine in overseas press- British, American, Canadian, Australian and South African- during the period from 1865-68 are on display at Cuttack Club which is the exhibition venue.

Dr. Justice S. Muralidhar, Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, inaugurated the exhibition at the Annexe Hall of Cuttack Club today at 10 am. A set of postcards and two special covers were released on the occasion.

Cuttack Club was where the Famine Commissioners had stayed from December 1866 to March 1867, when they wrote the epochal Famine Commission Report.