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The Clamour of Innocence
Infosys Prize winner Manu V. Devadevan on Prof. M. M. Kalburgi’s life and work
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Born in a peasant family in 1938, Professor M.M. Kalburgi went on to become the most influential historian of Karnataka in the post-independence times, exploring the history of language, literature and religious life in pre-colonial Karnataka. In his lifetime, Kalburgi published more than 100 books, including monographs, essay collections and critical as well as popular editions of a wide range of literary works in Kannada. He is especially known for his seminal contributions to the study of Old Kannada and the vachana literature.
Manu V. Devadevan makes an assessment of Kalburgi’s career and contribution to research on the history of precolonial Karnataka. He begins by reflecting upon the formative influences on the late professor, his research methods, and goes on to make an overview of his academic output, critically interrogating one of several theses that Kalburgi developed.
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Manu V. Devadevan
Manu V. Devadevan teaches History at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. He has published over a dozen books, including Prithviyallodagida Ghatavu: Karnatakada Ninnegalu (Akshara Prakashana, Heggodu, 2009), A Prehistory of Hinduism (DeGruyter, Warsaw and Berlin, 2016), and The ‘Early Medieval’ Origins of India (Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2020). A Kannada poet and translator, his latest collection of poetry, Ninna Yuga (Sangata Pustaka, Rajoor, 2020) was published in July this year. Among his translated works is God Is Dead, There Is No God: The Vachanas of Allama Prabhu (Speaking Tiger, New Delhi, 2019). Devadevan is recipient of the Infosys Prize in Humanities for the year 2019.
