It was on this day, i.e. April 1, 1936, the Indian state of Odisha was carved out of the combined Bengal- Bihar-Orissa province and was demarcated as an independent state. Popularly known as 'Utkal Divas' or 'Utkala Dibasha', it was on this day the new province or politically separate state of Odisha was formed under British rule on a linguistic basis.