Notes on the Geography of Peninsular India: CuttackCuttack sits at the apex of the Mahanadi Delta and about 15 miles north of Bhubaneshwar--twice that from Puri. The city is crowded just below between the fork of the Mahanadi, which makes the location less than ideal for expansion. Solution: in 1948 the capital of Orissa was moved from Cuttack to the new town of Bhubaneshwar. Make default image size larger ![]() Back in the days when Orissa and Bihar were a single province, Cuttack was the seat of the circuit court of the Patna High Court. From 1930, when Orissa became a province in its own right, it inherited what became and remains its High Court. ![]() Interior hall. ![]() From a subordinate building. ![]() It's early; the office hasn't opened yet. ![]() The judge's car, a fine old Ambassador. ![]() Corridor. The nizarat is the administrative office of the court. ![]() A still more minor judicial office, used for traffic offenses. ![]() It's in this building. ![]() Another Raj relic. ![]() The sign says "Old Medical Ward," but the building has a much longer history than that. It sits on the site of the Lalbagh Palace and was occupied for decades by British officers, including (after 1930) the Governor of Orissa. ![]() It's a busy place, now functioning as a hospital and postgraduate institute of pediatrics. ![]() We've come around to the back side of the hospital, which has this large circular bay whose view is now blocked by the main road. ![]() It's a nursery, full of cribs. ![]() Across the road, the mostly dry Kathjuri River, the right-branch of the Mahanadi. ![]() On the other side of the peninsula, and facing the left branch of the Mahanadi, the old Church of St. Michael and All the Angels is locked tight. ![]() The Cuttack Baptist church. ![]() Christ Collegiate School. ![]() In the hallway, a photo worth a thousand words. ![]() A local wedding hall. ![]() On the wall, another picture worth a thousand words. ![]() A later generation, not quite so toughened-up. ![]() And still later, Nandini Satpathy, a Communist-turned-Congress firebrand, long-serving member of the Orissa legislature, and twice chief minister of the state. She died at Cuttack in 2000. ![]() Cornerstone. ![]() Back in town: an old mansion. ![]() More typical buildings. ![]() Streetside business: bicycle repair. ![]() The city's Balu Bazaar is famous for silver filigree. ![]() Newer technologies have arrived. ![]() Newer dreams, too. |
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