Oriya people
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The Oriya people are an ethnic group of eastern India and of eastern Indo-Aryan stock. They are found primarily in Orissa, with small minorities in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. The Oriya people are well known for their impressive history of Sun worship and Orissa is home to some of the oldest Sun temples in India, including Konark. They can trace their history to the early Indo-Aryan Kalingas, who built a mighty eastern coastal empire here that was later absorbed into the Mauryan empire. They are also descendants of the Dravidian peoples, (now found chiefly in South India) and the early Proto-Australoid peoples, whose tribal descendants still live in large numbers in Orissa.
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