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| name = Gundugutti M. Manjanathaya<!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --><br />
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| birth_place = [[Kodagu]] ([[Coorg State|Coorg]]),<br />[[India]]<br />
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| occupation = Freedom Fighter, Politician<br />
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[[File:Gundugutti Manjanathayya and his wife.jpg|thumb|Gundugutti Manjanathaya and his wife Meenakshiamma]]<br />
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'''Gundugutti M. Manjanathaya'''<ref>{{cite web|title=Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 1967|url=http://www.elections.in/karnataka/assembly-constituencies/1967-election-results.html|website=elections.in|accessdate=7 August 2016|ref=Karnataka Assembly Election Results in 1967}}</ref> was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. Born as G. M. Manjanath, he was a prominent coffee planter and lived in the village of Gundugutti in [[Somwarpet]] taluk in [[Kodagu]] district.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mysore Information, Volume 22, Issues 1-5|date=1958|publisher=Mysore (India : State). Information Dept|pages=22–24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pE4dAQAAIAAJ&q=manjanathiah|accessdate=6 August 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Freedom Movement==<br />
In 1934, [[Pandyanda Belliappa]], another prominent freedom fighter, and Gundugutti Manjanathaya succeeded in persuading [[Mahatma Gandhi]] to tour Coorg for his cause of gaining donations towards the Harijan welfare fund. They accompanied him into Coorg and he stayed at Gundugutti Manjanathaya's house for one evening. It was here that Mrs. B. T. Gopal Krishna, better known as [[Kodagina Gowramma]], a famous Kannada woman writer and his relative, donated her jewellery for the cause and invited the entourage to her house.<ref>{{cite book|title=Gandhi's campaign against untouchability, 1933-34: an account from the Raj's secret official reports|date=1996|publisher=[[Gandhi Peace Foundation]]|location=New Delhi, India|page=111|isbn=9788185411101|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxRuAAAAMAAJ&q=manjunathayya|accessdate=6 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="State Gazetteer">{{cite book|last1=Kamath|first1=Dr. S. U.|title=Karnataka State gazetteer, Kodagu|date=1993|publisher=Director of Print, Stationery and Publications at the Government Press|pages=101, 102|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCELAQAAIAAJ&q=gundukutti|accessdate=6 August 2014}}</ref> During the 1942 [[Quit India Movement]] Manjanathaya's eldest son Gundugutti Narasimhamurthy organised a Seva Mandal in [[Madikeri]] to inspire the youth.<ref name="State Gazetteer"/><br />
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==Politics==<br />
In 1947 Coorg was a separate state in South India. Coorg had two MPs in the Union Parliament then, besides having a state legislative body. Manjanathaya was elected MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) of the [[Coorg State|State of Coorg]] (now [[Kodagu]]), between the years 1952-1957 and represented Sunticoppa I constituency as a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] party. In 1956 the State Reorganisation Act was passed. Coorg was merged with Mysore and the legislative body at Mercara dissolved. In 1967 G.M. Manjanathaya represented the [[Swatantra Party]] and defeated INC candidate C.K. Kalappa in Somwarpet in the Mysore State (Old name for Karnataka) Elections.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chinnappa|first1=K. Jeevan|title=From a princely State to two Assembly segments|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/from-a-princely-state-to-two-assembly-segments/article1247754.ece|accessdate=6 August 2014|work=The Hindu|date=29 April 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Appaiah|first1=Ashwini|title=Stress laid on religious tolerance at I-Day event in Kodagu|url=http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=338869|website=Team Mangalorean|accessdate=6 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Karanth|first1=Kota Shivarama|title=Ten Faces of a Crazy Mind: Autobiography (translated from Kannada)|date=1 Jan 1993|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|page=285|isbn=9788172760236|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1kOAAAAYAAJ&q=gundukutti|accessdate=6 August 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
You can also locate a high school called Gundugutty school, named after its founder GMM<br />
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[[Category:Coorg State politicians]]<br />
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