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LIST OF BOOKS ON AND RELATED TO COORG/KODAGU

Author: P.T. Bopanna

Title: The Romance of Indian Coffee

Publisher: Prism Books Pvt Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2011

 

Title: Coorg: Land of Beauty and Valour

Publisher: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2010

 

Title: Coorg State: Udaya-Pathana (Kannada)

Publisher: Press Club of Bangalore. 2011

 

Title: Dateline Coorg

Publisher: Rolling Stone Publications, Bangalore-560011. 2010

 

Title: Rise and Fall of the Coorg State

Publisher: Rolling Stone Publications, Bangalore-560011. 2009

 

Title: Discover Coorg (first edition 2006, second edition 2007, third edition 2008).

Publisher: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore-560070

 

Title: Kodagu: Mungaru Maleya Vismayada Nadu (Kannada)

Publisher: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2008.

 

Title: Coorg State: Udchad-Thandad (Kodava Thak)

Publisher:  Rolling Stone Publications, Bangalore-560011, 2012

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Author: Dr Boverianda C. Uthaiah & B.U. Thangamma

Title: Kodava Arivole (dictionary)

Publisher: Kodava Samskrithika Adhyayana Peetha, Mangalore University, 2016

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Author: C.P. Belliappa

Title: Tale of a Tiger’s Tail and other Yarns from Coorg

Publisher: Rupa & Co. 2004

Title: Nuggets from Coorg History

Publisher: Rupa & Co. 2008

Title: Victoria Gowramma: The Lost Princess of Coorg (the book has been translated into Kannada)

Publisher: Rupa & Co. 2010

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Author: Nadikerianda Chinnappa.

Title: Pattole Palame.

Language: Text in Kannada. Songs, proverbs, plays etc., in Kodava language.

Published by the author, 1924; Institute of Kannada Studies, University of Mysore, 1975; Kannada Pusthaka Pradhikara, Bangalore, 1995 ; Karnataka Kodava Sahithya Academy, Madikeri, 2002 and 2006.

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Author: Nadikerianda Chinnappa (translated from Kodava Thak into English by Boverianda Nanjamma and Chinnappa)

Title: Pattole Palame (Kodava culture-folksongs and traditions, 1924).

Publisher: Rupa & Co. 2003

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Author: Nadikerianda Chinnappa.

Title: Pattole Palame.

Language: Kodava thakk.

Translated by: Ajjinikanda Pramila and Mahesh Nachaiah.

Published by: The Kodava Thakk Parishat, 2006.

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Author: Mookonda Kushalappa

Title: The early Coorgs, US Edition Createspace, Indian Edition Notionpress 2013.

Title: Long ago in Coorg, US Edition Createspace 2013, Indian Edition Pothi books 2014.

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Author: Sarita Mandanna

Title: Tiger Hills: A Novel

Publisher: Penguin. 2011

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Author: Air Marshal K.C. Cariappa (retd)

Title: Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa (retd)

Publisher: Niyogi Books. 2007

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Author: Brinda Somaya

Title: Silent Sentinels: Traditional Architecture of Coorg

Publisher: The Hecar Foundation. 2005

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Authors: C.B. Muthamma and P. Gangamma Bopanna

Title: The Essential Kodava Cook Book

Publisher: Penguin

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Author: Dr S.V. Narasimhan

Title: Feathered Jewels of Coorg

Publisher: Coorg Wildlife Society. 2004

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Author: Ranee Vijaya Kuttaiah

Title: Cuisine from Coorg

Publisher: Sterling Publisher. 2000

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Author: Dr Veena Poonacha

Title:  From the Land of a Thousand Hills: Portrait of Three Kodagu Women. 2002

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Author: Kavery Nambisan

Title: Scent of Pepper: A Novel

Publisher:  Penguin Books. 1996

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Author: Lt. Col. K.C. Ponnappa (Retd)

Title: A Study of the Origins of Coorgs. 1997

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Author: John and Jeanette Isaac

Title: Coorg: The Land of the Kodavas

Publisher: Grantha Corporation. 1995

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Author: K.B. Ganapathy

Title: The Cross and the Coorgs: A Christian Saga in Coorg

Publisher: Writers Workshop, Kolkata. 1993

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Translator: Boverianda Maya Muddaiah

Title: Kodava Theeni (translated from Kodava Thak into English)

Publisher: Karnataka Kodava Sahithya Academy, Madikeri, 1998

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Author: Dervla Murphy

Title: On A Shoestring to Coorg. 1989

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Author: Kotera P. Muthanna

Title: Jagatige Ondey Kodagu. Foreword by Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa, published by the author in 1969

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Author: M.P. Cariappa and Ponnamma Cariappa

Title: The Coorgs and their Origins. 1981

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Author: Dr K.K. Subbayya

Title: Archaeology of Coorg. 1978

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Author: Jayanthi Belliappa

Title: A Sociological Study of Religious Concepts of the Coorgs. 1979

Publisher: Department of Sociology, University of Delhi

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Author: R. Balakrishnan

Title: Phonology of Kodagu with Vocabulary. 1976.

Title: A Grammar of Kodagu. 1977. Annamalai University

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Author: I.M. Muthanna

Title: A Tiny Model State of South India. 1953

Title: General Cariappa. 1964

Title: Coorg Memoirs. 1971

Title: General Thimmaiah. 1972

Title: Kodavas and their Gala Lela. 1987

Title: Tipu Sultan X-rayed. 1980

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Author: B.D. Ganapathy

Title: Kodavas (Coorgs): Their Customs and Culture. 1967

Title: Kodavas: A Comprehensive Study. 1980

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Author: M.N. Srinivas

Title: Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India, Oxford. 1952

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Author: Fraser

Title: Account of Coorg and the Coorgs under Vira Raja, London. 1796

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Author: Hilton Brown

Title: The Astonishing Land of Coorg (Blackwood’s Magazine), London, 1922

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Author: Lewis Rice

Title: Mysore and Coorg From the Inscriptions. 1909

Publisher: Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, 1986

Title: Mysore and Coorg – Volume III Coorg

Publisher: Mysore Government Press, 1878

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Author: G. Richter

Title: Gazetteer of Coorg. 1870

Publisher: Low Price Publications, Delhi-110052. Reprinted 1995

Title: The Ethnographical Compendium of the Castes and Tribes found in the Province of Coorg, Bangalore, 1887

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Author: Captain R.A. Cole

Title: An Elementary Grammar of the Coorg Language. 1867

Publisher: Wesleyan Mission Press, Bangalore

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Author: Rev. H. Moegling

Title: Coorg Memoirs: An Account of Coorg and the Coorg Mission.

Publisher: Wesleyan Mission Press, Bangalore. 1855

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Author: Capt. R.A. Cole

Title: Manual of Coorg Civil Law, Bangalore, 1861

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Author: Lt. P. Connor

Title: Memoirs of the Codagu Survey. 1817

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Author: Cathleen Ballantyne

Title: Plenty Salaams (life in coffee plantations of the 1880s) first published in 1954

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Author: E. Thurston

Title: The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press. 1913

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Author: U. Aitchison (compiler)

Title: A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads.

Publisher: Government of India Central Publication Branch, Calcutta. 1929

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Author: Appaneravanda Haradasa Appacha Kavi

Title of the four plays written in Kodava Thak between 1906 and 1920: Kaveri Nataka, Yayatiraja Nataka, Subramanya Nataka and Savitri Nataka.

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Author: Kalengada Ramesh Kariappa

Title: Kodava Paddhati (in Kodava Thak and Kannada) 1997

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Author: B. Emeneau Murray

Title: Kinship and Marriage Among the Coorgs

Publisher: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1938

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Author: Mandira Jaya Appanna

Title: Kodava Jayabharatha (Kodava Thak) . 2011

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Coorg/Kodagu District Gazetteer 1965, 1993.

Imperial Gazetteer of India, Coorg, Oxford. 1908

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Author: A. Michael Garman

Title: A Grammar of the Coorg Language, (unpublished thesis), University of Edinburgh, 1973

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Author: Rev. H. Heras

Title: Studies in Proto Indo Mediterranean Cultures, Bombay. 1953

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Author: Krishna Iyer

Title: Coorg Tribes and Castes, Madras, 1948

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Author: William jeafereson

Title: Coorg and its Rajahs, London, 1857

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Author: D.N. Krishnaiah

Title: Kodagina Itihasa (Kannada), University of Mysore, 1974

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Authors: R.K. Keshava Murthy and S.N. Yoganarasimhachar

Title: The Flora of Coorg, Bangalore, 1990

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Author: Sir Thomas H. Holland

Title: Coorgs and Yeravas – An Ethnological Contrast, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1901

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Author: Pandanda Muthanna

Title: Coorg and the Coorgs, 1931

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Compiled by Rajah Dodda Vira Rajendra

Title: Rajendraname (1630). Translated by Lt R. Abercrombie, 1857

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Author: Dr D.B. Ramachandrachar

Title: Kodagu Folk and Tribal Culture, Institute of Asian Studies, Madras, 1991

Title: Avakashada Alegala Mele (A biography of Chief Minister of Coorg State 1952-56, C.M.Poonacha, 1990

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Author: Dr P.S. Ramanujam

Title: Kodavaru (Kannada), University of Mysore, 1975

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Author: Alex Rea

Title: List of Archaeological and Architectural Remains in Coorg, Madras, 1894

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Author: Shankaranarayana Bhat

Title: Kodava Bhasheya Vyakarana (Kannada), Mysore, 2000

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Author: K.S. Rajyashree Subbayya

Title: Coorg Language – Phonology and Morphology (unpublished thesis, University of Poona) 1972

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Author: B.G. Kanty

Title: Coorg and its Rulers (thesis submitted to the University of Bombay, 1931

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Author: Coravanda Appayya

Title: Kodagara Kulacaradi Tatvojjivini (Kannada), 1902

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Author: Chendanda Dechamma Karumbaiah

Title: Kodava Gade Pinja Palanjoll (collection of proverbs and adages in Kodava Thak), 1982

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Author: M.G. Nagaraj

Title: Kembatti Holeyara Samskriti (Kannada), Bangalore, 1997

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Note: I acknowledge my thanks to Boverianda Nanjamma and Chinnappa, researchers, for their help in putting together the list. Regret if any book has been left out from the list.

Compiler of the book list: Journalist P.T. Bopanna