Simple.
You know what the Oriya maharajas were called ? Gajapatis. Lord of Elephants. Look at Orissa- dense jungles on broken mountain cliffs and small narrow fertile plains with shit tons of water. Elephants uber alles.
Odiyas were good at beating the living shit outta the muslims till they got KO-ed by vijayanagar and slowly absorbed into Mughal India.
But Odiyas retained an 'Irish' spirit towards the English , aka us inferior Bongs who went to rule over them - they kept assassinating us, so we went fine fine, odiya bhaumakaras/bhumihars- just say you loyal and pay token tax plz else we will come with army and beat on u but you are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too dangerous to colonize for us.
Long story short, Odiyas are a superior race to us bongs and have a spine. They went Irish mode on the moozies, hence they, like ireland today, are relatively moozie(english blood) free. The end.
Odiyas are tolerant of bong hindus, though they still see us as bikau and too pretentious, which i cant fault them for.But one thing is for sure that we bongs got over odiyas is food.
Odiya fish stuff is like shitty bong fish stuff and there is no two ways about it and they dont have nearly as many biriyani or meat dishes or even heavy milk based paneer type dishes or daal to compensate for.
But hey, one cant have it all and i do have jealousy of not being Odiya a bit- they aint pussies like us bong and i would happily trade it for having shittier food.