Yatra with proper music was unknown to the Odias.
It was commented that these Yatras had no actual musical touch and the Yatra makers did not know what was music.They had known decoration and they had satisfied the public by reciting pothis and unchaste sentences. The first two were famous in Cuttack, because they had akharas in the big villages of Cuttack. In the 1880s Odia Yatra was confined to Ramalila,Krishna Lila and Subhadra Harana. In Odisha in the 19th century Bengali Yatra was widely known and popular.( Utkala Dipika, 28th October 1876) But the Balasori party imitated the Bengali Yatra and produced a more forceful Odia Yatra. The Yatras (Suangas, lilas) were well known in Balasore, Cuttack and Puri in the colonial phase.
Important indices of Odia’s cultural identity were Rasa-Suanga-Yatra which continued from the medieval phase to the colonial phase.
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