Ganjam

Ganjam District got its name from "Ganj– i– am" which implies the "Storage facility of world". From different sources it likewise delights that Ganjam District is named after the Old Township and European stronghold of Ganjam arranged on the northern bank of waterway Rushikulya, which was the headquarter of the District. The stone declarations of King Ashoka and the engravings unmistakably demonstrates that the present tract of Ganjam was a piece of the Kalinga Empire, which was under the purview of King Ashoka.

Anyway after the vanishings of the Mauryan domain and the destruction of their outright amazingness, the Ganjam area was additionally vanished from the political situation of Odisha and was in a dim obscurity till in 1761, it was perceived as The French Bussy. When the French arrived Ganjam District was sub separated into a few sections. Yet, the French were not bound to be in charge of the organization of the Ganjam District for long and in the blink of an eye the English envaded the French settlement in Deccan lastly wound up triumphant in 1759.

In 1794, with the foundation of the Collector office, the authentic period of the British dominion was set up in Ganjam. From the recorded reports of Ganjam District, it has been deciphered that the headquarter of the District has experienced a few changes and has been moved starting with one place then onto the next. In 1855, the first headquarter of Ganjam was surrendered inferable from the emission of the scourge fever in the town for which close around 80 percent of the number of inhabitants in the town was decreased.