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About Channappa Uttangi
- Channappa D.
- Uttangi (28 October 1881 in Uttangi what is now the Karnataka State in South India – 1962 in Karnataka State) was an Indian author and poet. Channappa Uttangi began his Theological studies at the age of twenty at the Basel Seminary.
- Upon completing his studies Uttangi joined Basel Mission as an Evangelist in 1908.
- Uttangi's first published work was from a sermon preached at a Hindu gathering Bethlehem's appeal to Benares (today Varanasi).
- Varanasi is known as a symbolic place for Hindu culture and learning. Uttangi's was awarded by the Kannada Sahitya Sammelana for his groundbreaking work on the Kannada poet Sarvajna.
- For 25 years Uttangi researched this 16th-century Kannada poet. The poems of Sarvajna were spread out among the villages.
- To study these poems Uttangi developed a skill of reading and interpreting the ancient manuscripts preserved on palm leaves. Uttangi would go to the villages stay with the people and collect information on the poems of Sarvajna. In all Uttangi collected 2000 poems and classified them in a systematic manner. A statue of Channappa Uttangi was unveiled at his native village in Hadagali taluk by the former Chief Minister, N.
- Dharam Singh in July 2004.
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