Dr. I. M. Muthanna was a noted Indian writer, scholar and translator; he wrote in English,

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

and

Kodava takk The Kodava (''Kodava takk'', meaning 'speech of Kodavas', in the Kodava language, alternate name: Coorgi, Kodagu) is an endangered Dravidian language and it is spoken in Kodagu district in Southern Karnataka, India. The term Kodava has t ...

and studied history, folklore and international studies. He was born in

Kodagu Kodagu (also known by its former name Coorg) is an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State, at which point it was merged into an enlarged Mysore State. It occupies ...

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

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#Jagathigonde Kodagu, by K P Muththanna, 1969. #Kodavas, by B D Ganapathy, 1980. #A study of the Origin of Coorgs, by Lt Col K C Ponnappa (Rtd), 1999. Poets from Karnataka Indian male poets 20th-century Indian translators Kodava people Kodava Takk {{India-translator-stub