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38 <strong>Madhusudan</strong> <strong>Das</strong> :<br />

passed away before Orissa was created as a separate unit, he had the<br />

great satisfaction of knowing that his work was done . Its further<br />

growth and development he left to the younger generation of Orissa<br />

whose regards for the ideals of their Grand Old Man will evolve a<br />

greater, happier and united Orissa.<br />

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(7)<br />

THE GRAND OLD MAN OF ORISSA<br />

ATUL CHANDRA GANGULI<br />

The grand old man of Orissa, Mr. <strong>Madhusudan</strong> <strong>Das</strong>, M. A., B.L.,<br />

C.I.E., the maker of Modern Orissa, struggled lifelong for the uplift<br />

of the Oriya race. He earned a lot and spent everything for that purpose.<br />

After the declaration by the Secretary of State that Orissa would<br />

be formed into a separate province and some time before his demise,<br />

I congratulated him on his signal success with the remark that it falls<br />

to the lot of very few patriots to find their work crowned with success.<br />

His reply was "Atul Babu, I was lying in a hospital in Calcutta,<br />

bedridden and sufFering from severe pain on account of enlarged<br />

prostrate gland, when the news of the Secretary of State's declaration<br />

reached me. Such was my exhilaration that I felt as if I took a bottle<br />

of alcohol and all my pains vanished at that time."<br />

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