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A century-old anthem for a 70-year-old state
By Roopa Pai4 min read at Hindustan Times
In brief
The article recounts the history of the Kannada anthem 'Jaya He Karnataka Maate' written by Kuvempu in 1930, its musical adaptation in 1960, and the subsequent controversies over its official version and tune.
It notes that the Karnataka government named it the state anthem in 2003 and that the High Court ruled in favor of Mysore Ananthaswamy's tune in 2024.
This is an AI-estimated analysis and may not reflect the article's actual intent or the publisher's editorial position.
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Never mind how fraught the world seems at the moment, come November and Kannadiga thoughts turn inevitably to Kannada Rajyotsava, the anniversary of the creation of a Kannada homeland carved out of the former Madras Presidency, Bombay Presidency and the princely state of Hyderabad, and incorporated, along with other smaller princely states, into the of Mysore, the custodian of Kannada culture since the 13th century. The ekikarana, which came to pass on November 1, 1956, was the culmination of a decades-long struggle for unification pioneered by Kannada…
It is no wonder, then, that even as far back as the early 20th century, when the idea of a culturally and linguistically homogeneous land for Kannadigas was still incipient, Kannada writers, taking inspiration from Vande Mataram (the current political hot potato), which, after the Partition of Bengal in 1905, had served as the rallying cry of the Bengali resistance, began to write paeans to an as yet imaginary but much longed-for ‘motherland’. An early poem / song in this vein, extolling the glories of Kannada Nadu, was written in 1924 by a 20-year-old called KV Puttappa, then a student at…
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