The glory of the first armed farmer-warriors' uprising in Odisha against the East India Company in 1817 known as Paika Rebellion will be celebrated today. The Paika rebellion originated under the leadership of Bakshi Jagabandhu. <br/><br/>Ministry of Culture has organised a function in New Delhi to pay tribute to the martyrs on the ocassion of Bicentenary Celebration of the heroic Palika rebellion of odisha. President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the function. <br/><br/>On the occasion, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Union Ministers Jual Oram, Dharmendra Pradhan, and Dr Mahesh Sharma will be present. In April this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had felicitated descendants of the Paika warriors in Bhubaneswar.