Fakirmohan Senapati is regarded as the father of Oriya nationalism and the modern Oriya literature.
Fakirmohan dedicated his life for the progress of Oriya language in the later 19th and early 20th century.
Fakir Mohan's first original poem 'Utkala Bhramanam' (Tours of Orissa) appeared in 1892.
His literature consisted completely of pure Oriya and melodrama, his unscathed image in the society and his revolutionary social ideology.
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