Angul District has a long and glorious past. It enters history as a part of the Bhaumakara Kingdom in the 8th century. They were succeeded by the Shulkis and Somavanshis before being replaced by the Eastern Gangas and the Gajapati Kingdom. Firuz Shah Tughlaq is also known to have traversed the district during a raid to capture elephants in the later Ganga era. The district later became a site of…