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Profiles Jul 05, 2022

V P Madhava Rao (Part 4)

Vokkaligara Saṅgha I have heard that the Vokkaligara Saṅgha was established with the support and encouragement of V P Madhava Rao. He greatly admired K H Ramay...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jul 03, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 6

Profession Hereafter, the collective opinion of the citizens may take a back seat and unilateral decisions may find strength. In future, politics will only rep...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jun 29, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 5

Administrative Intelligence of the Dewans Before 1940, all those who administered the State in the position of the Dewan were loyal and competent in their own...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jun 26, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 4

That doesn’t mean we don’t want democracy at all. The State must be dependent on the citizenry is an important principle. The policies of the State as well as t...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jun 21, 2022

V P Madhava Rao (Part 3)

Generosity There is yet another instance. Vidvān Brahmaśrī Chappalli Viśveśvara-śāstrī of Bangalore was a Sanskrit Scholar at Central College. He was an outsta...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jun 19, 2022

V P Madhava Rao (Part 2)

In Travancore In this manner, V P Madhava Rao became the Dewan of Travancore long before Krishnamurti became the Dewan of Mysore.* There is no doubt that...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jun 15, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 3

Wealth and Prosperity With respect to wealth and resources, it is true that they are showing more activity than India. The reason behind it is not the governme...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles Jun 07, 2022

V P Madhava Rao (Part 1)

After P N Krishnamurti, V P Madhava Rao came to power as the Dewan. He was a smārta Deśastha brāhmaṇa from the Tanjore region. We could see a little bit of Sir...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Profiles Jun 02, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 2

Rights In this manner, we started extending our rights according to what we felt was appropriate at a certain moment. All the rights that we have mentioned can...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles May 24, 2022

Dewan Rungacharlu (Part 3)

Appendix [A few incidents which highlight Rungacharlu’s nature and character can be seen in an article published in the Deccan Herald dated 7th December 1961....

D V Gundappa

Profiles May 22, 2022

Fundamental Principles of a State’s Well-being - Part 1

rāṣṭraṃ vā aśvamedhaḥ… – Yajurveda (Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa 3.8.9) kalpate ha vai tatra prajābhyo yogakṣemaḥ yatraitena yajñena yajante – Yajurveda (Tai...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan, Hari Ravikumar

Profiles May 18, 2022

Rājakārya-prasakta Dewan Bahadur Sir M N Krishna Rao - part 4

Five-year Plan After Krishna Rao retired from the Government of Mysore, at the time of announcement of the first Five-year Plan of the Indian Government, he wr...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Vedavyas M G