I. M. Muthanna


Dr. I. M. Muthanna was a noted Indian writer, scholar and translator; he wrote in English, Kannada and Kodava takk and studied history, folklore and international studies. He was born in Kodagu into the Kodava community. He spent much of his later life in Canada. He is also responsible to developing the Muthanna script for Kodava Takk that has been accepted as the official script of the language by the Government of Karnataka.

Work

Some of the books that he wrote are listed below:
  • A tiny model state of South India
  • Indo-Ethiopian relations for centuries
  • Muttaṇṇana kavanagaḷu
  • History of Karnataka: history, administration & culture
  • General Cariappa:
  • The Coorg memoirs : Muthanna speaks out,
  • General Thimmayya ,
  • People of India in North America ,
  • Karnataka, history, administration & culture
  • Tipu Sultan x'rayed,
  • People of India in North America : immigration history of East-Indians up to 1960,
  • Koḍava Kannaḍa nighaṇṭu : Koḍava takk nighaṇṭ,
  • Mother Besant and Mahatma Gandhi,
  • ''Kodavas & their gala "lela": Kodava folklores & songs''

Main sources

  1. Jagathigonde Kodagu, by K P Muththanna, 1969.
  2. Kodavas, by B D Ganapathy, 1980.
  3. A study of the Origin of Coorgs, by Lt Col K C Ponnappa, 1999.