Nanjamma Chinnappa
P.T. Bopanna’s new book, Nanjamma Chinnappa: Chronicler of Coorg Culture, is a tribute to the late Boverianda Nanjamma Chinnappa, a renowned Kodagu researcher. The highlight of the book is an insightful interview of Nanjamma by Dr. Nervanda Veena Poonacha, an eminent sociologist and women&r...
India's History
India has had a varied and colorful history over a period of several millennia. The people inhabiting India over all this time were highly sophisticated and gave rise to great civilizations, some lasting for hundreds of years. But the known history of India, established by physical proof in the f...
The Origins of Coorgs
The origin of the small community of Coorgs (Kodavas) in the South West corner of Karnataka has been the subject of much speculation in the absence of recorded history prior to about 1600 AD. By tracing the anthropological and sociological links, and by considering them together with related hist...
