Known for millenia as the center of the Kalinga region, an ancient territorial subdivision of east-central India, Odisha is home to the third largest population of historically disadvantaged people, officially labelled "Scheduled Castes" (SCs) and "Scheduled Tribes" (STs).
State was renamed Odisha from the original Orissa (named under the British Raj in 1936) via passage of the the Orissa bill in 2010 and the 113th amendment to the Constitution in 2011.
The official language is Odia (from the original Oriya). Capital is Brubaneswar.
