I. M. Muthanna

Indian writer, scholar, and translator

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.^[1][2] He was born in Kodagu into the Kodava (Coorg) community. He spent part of his later life in the US.

Some of the books that he wrote are listed below:

• A tiny model state of South India (in 1953)^[3]
• Indo-Ethiopian relations for centuries (in 1961)^[4]
• Muttaṇṇana kavanagaḷu (Kannada anthology in 1962)^[5]
• History of Karnataka: history, administration & culture (in 1962)^[6]
• General Cariappa: (the first Indian commander-in-chief) (in 1964)^[7]
• The Coorg memoirs (the story of the Kodavas): Muthanna speaks out (in 1971),^[8]
• General Thimmayya (former: Chief of Army Staff, India; Chairman, N.N.R.C., Korea; Commander, U.N. Forces, Cyprus) (in 1972),^[9]
• People of India in North America (part one) (in 1975),
• Karnataka, history, administration & culture (in 1977)^[10]
• Tipu Sultan x'rayed (in 1980),^[11]
• People of India in North America (United States, Canada, W. Indies, & Fiji): immigration history of East-Indians up to 1960 (in 1982),^[12]
• Koḍava Kannaḍa nighaṇṭu : Koḍava takk nighaṇṭ (Kodava-Kannada dictionary in 1983),
• Mother Besant and Mahatma Gandhi (in 1986),^[13]
• Kodavas & their gala "lela": Kodava folklores & songs (in 1987)^[14]

References

1. "Amazon.co.uk". Amazon.co.uk. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
2. "I. M. Muthanna". Open Library. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
3. Muthanna, I. M. (7 August 2007). A tiny model state of South India – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
4. "Indo-Ethiopian Relations for Centuries, by I. M. Muthanna: Amazon.co.uk: I. M. Muthanna: Books". Amazon.co.uk. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
5. Muthanna, I. M. (14 July 2006). History of Karnataka: history ... – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
6. "History of modern Karnataka / I.M. Muthanna | National Library of Australia". Catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
7. Muthanna, I. M. (11 September 2007). General Cariappa: the first Indian ... – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
8. Muthanna, I. M. (27 October 2006). The Coorg memoirs (the story of the ... – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
9. Muthanna, I. M. (2 March 2007). General Thimmayya (former: Chief of ... – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
10. Muthanna, I. M. (31 October 2006). Karnataka, history, administration ... – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
11. Muthanna, I. M. (12 July 2006). Tipu Sultan x'rayed – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
12. Muthanna, I. M. (4 November 2006). People of India in North American ... – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
13. Muthanna, I. M. (30 November 2006). Mother Besant and Mahatma Gandhi – I. M. Muthanna – Google Books. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
14. I. M. Muthanna. "Kodavas & their gala "lela"". Open Library. Retrieved 12 November 2011.

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 (Rtd), 1999.