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

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.