Sri RamachandraPur, Puri, Orissa (now Odisha), India
Died
6 November 1967 (1967-11-07) (aged 83)
Cuttack, Odisha, India
Resting place
Pancha-Sakha Cemetery, Sakhigopal, Puri, Odisha
Education
B.A., Ravenshae College M.A., Calcutta University
Occupation(s)
Legislator, litterateur, social reformer, philosopher, freedom fighter, teacher
Years active
1903-1964
Known for
Role at Satyabadi School; Formation of Odisha Province; Research on Odia Language; Writing an Interpretation of Gita; Speaker of Odisha Assembly (1957-1961)
Padma Bhusana, Govt. India; D. Litt., Utkal University; Sahitya Akademi Award, Central Sahitya Akademi, India
Pandit Nilakantha Das (1884-1967) was one of the most illustrious sons of Odisha, who appeared both in its political and literary arena at the most crucial period of its history, when Odisha had no political identity in the map of India, and Odia as a language was about to be extinct. He worked relentlessly for Odisha's recognition both politically and linguistically, and helped bring to fruition the dreams of Utkala Gaurab Madhusudan Das, Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das and all other Odia loving people.
As a colleague of Mahatma Gandhi, Motilal Nehru and Dr. Rajendra Prasad, among others, Nilakantha played a key role in the Indian Independence movement. He was a polymath who was an eminent teacher, exceptional leader, erudite scholar, renowned writer, great orator, and a powerful legislator. Pandit Nilakantha was renowned as the headmaster of Satyabadi Bana Bidyalaya, the brainchild of Utkalamani Gopabandhu. He was a prime architect in creating the independent Odisha Province in 1936, who worked untiringly as the right-hand man of Madhusudan Das to achieve this goal. Because of his legislative efforts in Delhi Central Assembly, Odisha became the first Province in India to be formed on a linguistic basis.
His in-depth research on the evolution of Odia language revealed a number of facts that helped establish Odia as the sixth Indian classical language. Odia is also the only language from the Indo-Aryan group of languages aside from Sanskrit to have the classical tag as of 2024.
Because of his unfathomable knowledge in many important fields, Nilakantha Das is also revered as Utkala Guru.
Pandit NilakanthaDas (1884-1967) was one of the most illustrious sons of Odisha, who appeared both in its political and literary arena at the most crucial...
came from other members of the school's staff, including NilakanthaDas and Godabarish Mishra. Das saw journalism as a means to educate the masses even though...
Govarḍhana Maṭha, one of the four cardinal maṭhas created by Adi Shankara. NilakanthaDas suggested that Jagannath was a deity of Jain origin because of the appending...
the All India Congress Committee. They were Gopabandhu Das, Jagabandhu Singh, NilakanthaDas, Gopabandhu Choudhury, Niranjan Pattanaik, Harekrushna Mahatab...
(92): Raj Raj Dev Ganatantra Parishad) 1957: (64): NilakanthaDas (Congress) 1951: (84): NilakanthaDas (Independent) In 2009 election, Indian National Congress...
Manoj Das (27 February 1934 – 27 April 2021) was an Indian author who wrote in Odia and English. In 2000, Manoj Das was awarded the Saraswati Samman....
December 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022. "Odisha Health Minister Naba Kisore Das shot dead by police officer". The Hindu. 29 January 2023. ISSN 0971-751X...
lead[sic] by Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das, Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati, Pandit NilakanthaDas, Bhubanananda Das and many others played a key role in...
served as a director of Bank of Baroda with Tulsidas Kilachand, Rameshwar Das Birla, Arvind Mafatlal and others. Naval Tata went on to become an internationally...
Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das in 1909 (British India). Established in 1905 as an experiment in the field of education by Gopabandhu Das, the school started...
kindred souls as Madhusudan Das, Gopabandhu Das, Acharya Harihara Das, NilakanthaDas, Godabaris Mishra and Bhubanananda Das. It had on its staff such great...
pretty as Sri Buddha there in the Blue Cavern. — Sarala Dasa Pandit NilakanthaDas suggested that Jagannath was a deity of Jain origin because of the appending...
was his aunt. Satyajit Ray was born to Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray (nee Das Gupta) in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Sukumar Ray died when Satyajit was two...
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