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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Andanappa Doddameti
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| office = Minister of State for Minor Irrigation, [[Government of Mysore]]
| term_start = 1968
| term_end = March 1971
| predecessor =
| successor =
| office1 = Member of the [[Mysore Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start1 = 1957
| term_end1 = 1972
| predecessor1=
| successor1 = A. V. Patil
| constituency1= [[Ron Assembly constituency|Ron]]
| office2 = Member of the [[Bombay Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start2 = 1952
| term_end2 = 1957
| predecessor2= ''Constituency established''
| successor2 =
| constituency2 = Ron
| office3 = Member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly for Dharwad North
| term_start3 = 1946
| term_end3 = 1946
| term_start4 = 1937
| term_end4 = 1939
| profession =
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1908|3|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Jakkali, [[Gadag district|Gadag]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1972|2|21|1908|3|16|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| spouse = Annapurna<br/>Devikadevi
| children =
}}

'''Andanappa Jnanappa Doddameti''' (16 March 1908 – 21 February 1972) was an Indian statesman. He is known for his role in the [[Unification of Karnataka]]<ref name="karhist">{{cite web |url=https://www.karnataka.gov.in/info-1/History/History/en |title=Karnataka History | publisher=Government of Karnataka |date=2021-09-08 |website=Government of Karnataka |access-date=2022-11-28}}</ref> and his significant participation in the [[Indian Independence Movement]].<ref name="talesfreedom">{{cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/forgotten-tales-of-the-freedom-struggle-in-north-karnataka/article61428856.ece |title=Forgotten tales of the freedom struggle in North Karnataka | publisher=The Hindu |date=2021-08-17 |website=The Hindu |access-date=2022-11-28}}</ref>

==Early life==
Doddameti was born into a farming family of Jnanappa and Basamma in Jakkali village, [[Ron, Karnataka|Ron taluk]], of the erstwhile [[Bombay Presidency]] of [[British India]] (in present-day [[Karnataka]]) on 16 March 1908.<ref name="bio">{{cite book |title=Andanappa Doddamet |date=2008 |url=https://kla.kar.nic.in/assembly/elib/pdf/eresources/Andanappa%20Doddameti.pdf |language=kn |access-date=13 May 2025}}</ref><ref name=b>{{cite book|title=India Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbBJAQAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=INFA Publications|page=253}}</ref><ref name="Taleyarkhan1953">{{cite book|author=Homi Jehangirji H. Taleyarkhan|title=Bombay Legislature Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEk5AQAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Bombay Legislature Congress Party|page=20}}</ref><ref name=a/><ref name="Patil2002"/> Doddameti was an agriculturist through ancestry. He joined the [[Indian National Congress]] in 1930.<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/><ref name=a>{{cite book|title=March of Mysore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fImT5XD5IQ0C|year=1968|page=14}}</ref> In 1933, he was named director of the [[Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee|Karnatak Provincial Congress Committee]].<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/><ref name="Ltd1985"/> He took part in the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1933.<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/><ref name=a/> He was jailed for half a year and fined 2,000 [[Indian rupee]]s him for his role in the Ankola stir.<ref name=b/><ref name=a/><ref name="Ltd1985"/> Doddameti discontinued his education after class three. He was married a few months before he turned 18, and had [[Polygyny in India|two wives]] — Annapurna and Devikadevi.<ref name="bio"/>

==Career==
Doddameti founded the Dharwad District [[Harijan Sevak Sangh]] after his release from jail.<ref name=b/><ref name="Patil2002">{{cite book|author=Shankaragouda Hanamantagouda Patil|title=Community Dominance and Political Modernisation: The Lingayats|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R84n-Wv1S-8C&pg=PA282|year=2002|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-867-9|pages=225, 282}}</ref><ref name="Ltd1985"/> He met [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in the Yarvada jail, and sought his blessing for the work for upliftment of Harijans.<ref name="Patil2002"/> Additionally, Doddameti served as the president of the Jamkhandi State People's Conference from 1932 to 1948.<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/><ref name=a/><ref name="Jatti1993">{{cite book|author=Bi. Ḍi Jatti|title=I Am My Own Model: An Autobiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u65AAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Vikas Publishers|isbn=978-81-220-0277-5|page=28}}</ref>

Doddameti was elected to the [[Bombay Legislative Assembly]] from the Dharwad North constituency in 1937.<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/><ref name="Patil2002"/> In 1938, he supported a motion for the creation of a Karnatak province, addressing the legislature in [[Kannada language]].<ref name="Patil2002"/> He was the first legislator to speak in Kannada in the assembly.<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/> He was jailed during a 1940 [[satyagraha]].<ref name="Ltd1985"/> Previously, he was imprisoned during the [[Quit India]] movement of 1942, and spent thirty-three months in jail.<ref name="Ltd1985"/>

Doddameti was re-elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1946.<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/> On 1 April 1947, he moved a resolution in the Legislative Assembly calling for the creation of a Karnatak province, which was adopted by the legislature with 60 votes in favour and 8 against.<ref name="Patil2002"/> He was re-elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in the 1952 elections, representing the [[Ron Assembly constituency|Ron constituency]].<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/> He served as the Working President of the Karnatak Unification League.<ref name="Taleyarkhan1953"/> Doddameti was a Member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly until 1956.<ref name=a/> From 1956 onwards, he served as member of the Mysore Legislative Assembly.<ref name=a/> He was re-elected to the Mysore Legislative Assembly in 1957, 1962 and 1967.<ref name="Ltd1985"/><ref>Election Commission of India. ''[https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3772-karnataka-1957/ Karnataka 1957]''</ref> In 1957 and 1966, he moved a resolutions in the Mysore Legislative Assembly, calling for the state to be renamed Karnataka.<ref name="Patil2002"/>

In 1968, Doddameti was named as Minister of State for Minor Irrigation in the Mysore state government.<ref name="Ltd1985"/><ref name="Assembly1967">{{cite book|author=Mysore (India : State). Legislature. Legislative Assembly|title=A Review of Working of Mysore Legislative Assembly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9jq3qwKf4IC|year=1967|publisher=Mysore Legislature Secretariat.|page=195}}</ref> His tenure as Minister ended in March 1971.<ref name=b/>

Doddameti died on 21 February 1972.<ref name="Ltd1985">{{cite book|author=Durga Das Pvt. Ltd|title=Eminent Indians who was Who, 1900–1980, Also Annual Diary of Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLEZAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Durga Das Pvt. Limited|page=105}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1908 births]]
[[Category:1972 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka]]
[[Category:Bombay State MLAs 1952–1957]]
[[Category:Mysore MLAs 1952–1957]]
[[Category:Mysore MLAs 1957–1962]]
[[Category:Mysore MLAs 1962–1967]]
[[Category:Mysore MLAs 1967–1972]]
[[Category:Members of the Mysore Legislature]]

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MarkObd354 at 05:30, 13 May 2025