Kannada Rajyotsava | A 50-year-old name, centuries of legacy
The HinduPropelled by the Karnataka Ekikarana movement and decades of protests, all Kannada-speaking regions outside the Mysore Princely State were unified into one State on November 1, 1956. Origins of the word ‘Karnataka’ Even before the Karnataka Ekikarana movement gained steam towards the end of the 19th century, the words ‘Karṇaata’, ‘Karnataka’ and ‘Kannada’ had been used on several occasions by poets, writers, and historians to address this region. Most definitively, the word ‘Karnataka’ finds a place in the second line of Kuvempu’s Jai Bharata Jananiya Tanujaate, written in 1924 and adopted as the State anthem in 2004. Another popular theory, espoused by German linguist Hermann Gundert, says the name comes from ‘Kari Naadu’, an allusion to the black soil found in the State, crucial for cotton cultivation.
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