Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Aug 10, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 10

Integrity and Competence Now, for the kind of State we are discussing about, these two duties are sufficient – the destruction of the wicked and the protection...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jul 31, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 9

Let the Field of Work be Limited Constantly expanding the area of work of the government has become an intoxicating disease afflicting all States today. This b...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jul 27, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 8

V. Representative Council i. First and foremost, we need two major developments: a. Membership should not become a means of livelihood. The salaries and perqui...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Culture Jul 24, 2022

Mysore after 1940 (Part 3)

‘Responsible Government’ A ‘Responsible Government’ or an ‘Answerable Government’ can be briefly described thus: The country should be ruled by the citizens; h...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture Jul 19, 2022

Mysore after 1940 (Part 2)

Helplessness of the Government I have mentioned earlier a statement that M N Krishna Rao used to repeat quite often: “When observed from one standpoint, the go...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jul 13, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 7

It is appropriate that the system of governance in India is a collection of one and many. Given the land’s geographical expanse, large population, bio-/geo-di...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Culture Jul 10, 2022

Mysore after 1940 (Part 1)

In this survey of history, l have touched all the frontiers I had intended to. It is a wheel of time spanning sixty years between 1880 and 1940.* The historical...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jul 05, 2022

V P Madhava Rao (Part 4)

Vokkaligara Saṅgha I have heard that the Vokkaligara Saṅgha was established with the support and encouragement of V P Madhava Rao. He greatly admired K H Ramay...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jul 03, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 6

Profession Hereafter, the collective opinion of the citizens may take a back seat and unilateral decisions may find strength. In future, politics will only rep...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jun 29, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 5

Administrative Intelligence of the Dewans Before 1940, all those who administered the State in the position of the Dewan were loyal and competent in their own...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jun 26, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 4

That doesn’t mean we don’t want democracy at all. The State must be dependent on the citizenry is an important principle. The policies of the State as well as t...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jun 21, 2022

V P Madhava Rao (Part 3)

Generosity There is yet another instance. Vidvān Brahmaśrī Chappalli Viśveśvara-śāstrī of Bangalore was a Sanskrit Scholar at Central College. He was an outsta...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jun 19, 2022

V P Madhava Rao (Part 2)

In Travancore In this manner, V P Madhava Rao became the Dewan of Travancore long before Krishnamurti became the Dewan of Mysore.* There is no doubt that...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jun 15, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 3

Wealth and Prosperity With respect to wealth and resources, it is true that they are showing more activity than India. The reason behind it is not the governme...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jun 07, 2022

V P Madhava Rao (Part 1)

After P N Krishnamurti, V P Madhava Rao came to power as the Dewan. He was a smārta Deśastha brāhmaṇa from the Tanjore region. We could see a little bit of Sir...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jun 02, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 2

Rights In this manner, we started extending our rights according to what we felt was appropriate at a certain moment. All the rights that we have mentioned can...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles May 22, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 1

rāṣṭraṃ vā aśvamedhaḥ… – Yajurveda (Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa 3.8.9) kalpate ha vai tatra prajābhyo yogakṣemaḥ yatraitena yajñena yajante – Yajurveda (Tai...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles May 15, 2022

Dewan Rungacharlu (Part 2)

Attire Rungacharlu was extremely careless about his clothing. He was always hasty. He wore baggy coats. Seeing him wrongly buttoned was not a rare sight. He us...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles May 10, 2022

Dewan Rungacharlu (Part 1)

The First Proponent of Democracy in India I have never seen Chettipunyam Rungacharlu [alternatively, Rangacharlu or Rangacharya.] I was born five or six years...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Apr 26, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 8)

APPENDIX ‘Deśābhimāni’ One of the most important political situations during Seshadri Iyer’s tenure was related to newspapers. In the city of Mysore, a person...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Apr 17, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 7)

 Virūpākṣa-śāstrī Everyone agreed to that [conditions laid down by Seshadri Iyer’s wife]. Seshadri Iyer himself, very cheerfully, agreed to all of it. Acc...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Apr 12, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 6)

The Two Parties This controversy raged on quite intensely. Several public meetings were held by the prominent citizens of the State, countless petitions were f...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Mar 29, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 5)

Chanchal Rao’s Nourishment of Dharma P Chanchal Rao was an Āndhra-brāhmaṇa. He was a great Sanskrit scholar and one who had gained expertise in all modern subj...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Mar 15, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 4)

Standing Committee An incident took place at the Representative Assembly of Mysore. During one of the sessions of the Representative Assembly, M Venkatakrishna...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Mar 01, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 3)

We learn the following from a treatise authored by M Gopalakrishnayya, published by the Mysore Electrical Department in 1932 – apparently, during the last decad...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Feb 15, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 2)

Competence at Work Alongside his reputation for proficiency at work, there is another trait of Seshadri Iyer that needs to be mentioned as a corollary. He was...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Feb 12, 2022

Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 1)

Sir K. Seshadri Iyer was a native of Madras. He hailed from the region of Palghat (Palakkad). He wasn’t, in fact, someone the British authorities had summoned....

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jan 19, 2021

'Pradhaana Shiromani' T. Ananda Rao (Part 3)

An Open Letter Keeping the glory and successes achieved by the Mahārāja of Bikaner as a pretext, I wrote and published around ten or fifteen open letters co...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jan 15, 2021

'Pradhaana Shiromani' T. Ananda Rao (Part 2)

Cancellation of Sastri’s Lecture It had been announced that V S Srinivasa Sastri—member of the Servants of India Society—who had come to Bangalore, would be...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jan 05, 2021

'Pradhaana Shiromani' T. Ananda Rao (Part 1)

After V. P. Madhava Rao, Thanjavur Ananda Rao came to power as the Diwan. He was rich by birth and also possessed all the great attributes that a wealthy person...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture Dec 22, 2020

The System of Governance before Independence (Part 2)

The Beginning of Fragility This idea is now crippled. A few people opine that the pride of the local officer (i.e., the officer in charge) was first pricked du...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture Dec 08, 2020

The System of Governance before Independence (Part 1)

According to the Hindu calendar, a span of sixty years is counted as a paryāya. From the start of the Prabhava saṃvatsara till the end of the Akṣaya saṃvatsara...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Nov 24, 2020

Sir P. N. Krishnamurti (Part 2)

Unspirited Functioning Despite all this, the administration showed no increase in its spirit and enthusiasm. I have thought about its reason. In my view, it wa...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Nov 10, 2020

Sir P. N. Krishnamurti (Part 1)

Śrīmān (who was later knighted) P. N. Krishnamurti had to wait for quite some time before he obtained the position of the Dewan. Krishnamurti was the grandson...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Nov 09, 2019

Rāja-mantra-dhurīṇa Sir A R Banerjee

Albion Rajkumar Banerjee was a Bengali by origin. His father, Devavrata Sasipada Banerji, used to be the chief of a branch of the Brahmo Samaj. A. R. Banerjee’s...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Nov 03, 2019

Rāja-sevā-dhurīṇa Sardār M Kantaraj Urs

Sardār M Kantaraj Urs was related to the Royal family: he was the Queen Regent’s younger brother and son-in-law. However, this wasn’t—even remotely—the reason w...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jul 05, 2019

Rājadharmapravīṇa T R A Thumboo Chetty

After Sir K Seshadri Iyer, Rayalu Arokiaswamy Thumboo Chetty of Tiruchirapalli (Trichinopoly) became the Diwan of Mysore. His tenure as Diwan was for a mere sev...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles May 28, 2019

Dharwad Karnataka’s Zest for Literature

The Kannada renaissance movement had begun several years earlier[1] in the Dharwad Karnataka region. One can say that in some sense, (literary) programs began i...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture May 07, 2019

Kannaḍa Sāhitya Pariṣad (Part 2)

Establishment of the Pariṣad The Sāhitya Pariṣad was established in the assembly hall located in the quadrangle of today’s Arts and Science College building, w...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture Apr 30, 2019

Kannaḍa Sāhitya Pariṣad (Part 1)

Karṇāṭaka Sāhitya Pariṣad is one of the most prominent public institutions of our state. The key objectives of this organization as envisioned by its founders w...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture Aug 17, 2018

Śrīkṛṣṇasūkti

While reflecting on the history of Kannada revival, one thing that I am most certainly reminded of, is the publication of Udupi’s Śrīkṛṣṇasūkti. Śrīkṛ...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Aug 10, 2018

Nangapuram Venkatesha Iyengar

Among those who built the Kannada Sahitya Parishad, it is essential for my contentment to reminisce about the early few. Nangapuram Venkatesha Iyengar is o...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jul 07, 2018

Nanjundashastri of Kadaba

Much like Togere Nanjundashastri, the Nanjundashastri of Kadaba was also a traditional scholar. A person with complete mastery over both Sanskrit and classical...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture May 01, 2018

The Kannaḍa Sāhitya Sammeḻana of Davanagere

In 1922, the Kannaḍa Sāhitya Sammeḻana[1] was held at Davanagere. That year, Mysore’s Vṛddha Pitāmaha[2] Sri. M. Venkatakrishnayya presided over...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan