While reflecting on the political events and the cultural anthropology of the eighteenth century in Orissa, a rare contrast between the two becomes obvious to every discerning reader. During this period Orissa was under the dual rule of the Marhattas and the Mughals, and since they were in constant conflict, Orissa, for the entire period, was torn by barren civil strife and disorder. At the same time, as if being true to the dialectics of history, this age also gave birth to an outstanding literary avant-garde, Vrajanatha Vadajena. In sharp contrast with the sterility of the age, he fertilized the flowers of creation with the zeal of a bee in search of nectar. For economic and other reasons he had to cling to the crass tanacity of life and its diligent pains but that never turned his vision grey. He has success- fully experimented with several styles of literary composition which no one in Orissa tried before, and even in what he wrote in the traditional manner, he has left the deep impress of a strong individuality. His liking for different languages and people testifies to his magnanimity and pan- Indian consciousness. With the change of values in literature in recent years, he is being gradually recognised as the most modern of all the writers in Old Oriya Literature.
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