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'''Gowramma''' (1912–1939), better known as '''Kodagina Gowramma''', was an Indian writer who wrote in [[Kannada language|Kannada]] and lived in [[Kodagu]]. She was a [[feminist]] and supporter of the [[Indian Freedom Movement]].<ref name="Women writers">{{cite book|last1=Vēṇugōpāla Soraba, Je Hēmalata|title=Women writers in South Indian languages|date=1 September 1995|publisher=B.R. Pub. Corp.|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6FkAAAAMAAJ&q=kodagina+gowramma&dq=kodagina+gowramma&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QAPiU-XmEZGMuASBhoKYAg&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA|accessdate=2014-08-06}}</ref>

==Life==
Gowramma was born in 1912 to N.S Ramayya and Nanjamma in [[Madikeri]]<ref>{{cite web |author= Kallammanavar, Srikanth | title= The roots of Kannada in Kodagu |url= http://www.deccanherald.com/content/378748/roots-kannada-kodagu.html |work= Deccan Herald| publisher= deccanherald.com |date=5 January 2014 |accessdate=2015-04-14}}</ref> and married to B. T. Gopal Krishna of [[Somwarpet]] taluk in [[Kodagu]], then known as [[Coorg State|Coorg]], a province in [[British India]].<ref name="Rao's article"/> She invited [[Mahatma Gandhi]] to her family house, during his campaign in Coorg, and donated all her gold ornaments towards the [[Harijan]] ([[Dalit]]) Welfare Fund.<ref name="State Gazetteer">{{cite book|last1=Kamath|first1=Dr. S. U.|title=Karnataka State gazetteer, Kodagu District|date=1993|publisher=Director of Print, Stationery and Publications at the Government Press|location=Bangalore|page=660|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCELAQAAIAAJ&q=kodagina+gowramma&dq=kodagina+gowramma&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QAPiU-XmEZGMuASBhoKYAg&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAg|accessdate=2014-08-06}}</ref>

She drowned in a whirlpool, aged 27, on 13 April 1939.<ref name="Rajan's article"/>

==Works==
Gowramma wrote in Kannada under the name 'Kodagina Gowramma'.<ref name="Women writers"/> Her stories, such as “Aparaadhi Yaaru” (Who is the criminal), “Vaaniya Samasye”, “Aahuthi” and “Manuvina Raani”, were modern and progressive. Her story ”Manuvina Rani” made her famous. A volume of her best known stories, ''Gowramma Kathegalu'', was issued from [[Madikeri]].<ref name="Rao's article">{{cite news|last1=Rao|first1=H.S. Raghavendra|title=Pioneering steps|url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/pioneering-steps/article2949498.ece|accessdate=2014-08-06|publisher=The Hindu|date=1 March 2012}}</ref><ref name="Rajan's article">{{cite news|last1=Rajan|first1=K. Sundar|title=Short stories (Book Review)|url=http://www.thehindu.com/br/2003/04/08/stories/2003040800080303.htm|accessdate=2014-08-06|publisher=The Hindu|date=8 April 2003}}</ref>

==Influence==
Decades later, her works inspired [[Anasuya Shankar|Triveni]], another woman writer in Kannada.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} A volume of Gowramma's stories was published as ''Mareyalagada Kathegalu'' and prefaced by Kannada writer [[Vaidehi (Kannada writer)|Vaidehi]].<ref name="Rao's article"/>

==References==
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[[Category:Kannada-language writers]]
[[Category:Women writers from Karnataka]]
[[Category:1912 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian writers]]
[[Category:People from Kodagu district]]
[[Category:Indian feminist writers]]

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>Scorpions13256 at 15:23, 21 June 2021