Author: P.T. Bopanna
Title: The Romance of Indian Coffee
Publisher: Prism Books Pvt Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2011
Title: Coorg: Land of Beauty and Valour
Publisher: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2010
Title: Coorg State: Udaya-Pathana (Kannada)
Publisher: Press Club of Bangalore. 2011
Title: Dateline Coorg
Publisher: Rolling Stone Publications, Bangalore-560011. 2010
Title: Rise and Fall of the Coorg State
Publisher: Rolling Stone Publications, Bangalore-560011. 2009
Title: Discover Coorg (first edition 2006, second edition 2007, third edition 2008).
Publisher: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore-560070
Title: Kodagu: Mungaru Maleya Vismayada Nadu (Kannada)
Publisher: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore-560070. 2008.
Title: Coorg State: Udchad-Thandad (Kodava Thak)
Publisher: Rolling Stone Publications, Bangalore-560011, 2012
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Author: Dr Boverianda C. Uthaiah & B.U. Thangamma
Title: Kodava Arivole (dictionary)
Publisher: Kodava Samskrithika Adhyayana Peetha, Mangalore University, 2016
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Author: C.P. Belliappa
Title: Tale of a Tiger’s Tail and other Yarns from Coorg
Publisher: Rupa & Co. 2004
Title: Nuggets from Coorg History
Publisher: Rupa & Co. 2008
Title: Victoria Gowramma: The Lost Princess of Coorg (the book has been translated into Kannada)
Publisher: Rupa & Co. 2010
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Author: Nadikerianda Chinnappa.
Title: Pattole Palame.
Language: Text in Kannada. Songs, proverbs, plays etc., in Kodava language.
Published by the author, 1924; Institute of Kannada Studies, University of Mysore, 1975; Kannada Pusthaka Pradhikara, Bangalore, 1995 ; Karnataka Kodava Sahithya Academy, Madikeri, 2002 and 2006.
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Author: Nadikerianda Chinnappa (translated from Kodava Thak into English by Boverianda Nanjamma and Chinnappa)
Title: Pattole Palame (Kodava culture-folksongs and traditions, 1924).
Publisher: Rupa & Co. 2003
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Author: Nadikerianda Chinnappa.
Title: Pattole Palame.
Language: Kodava thakk.
Translated by: Ajjinikanda Pramila and Mahesh Nachaiah.
Published by: The Kodava Thakk Parishat, 2006.
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Author: Mookonda Kushalappa
Title: The early Coorgs, US Edition Createspace, Indian Edition Notionpress 2013.
Title: Long ago in Coorg, US Edition Createspace 2013, Indian Edition Pothi books 2014.
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Author: Sarita Mandanna
Title: Tiger Hills: A Novel
Publisher: Penguin. 2011
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Author: Air Marshal K.C. Cariappa (retd)
Title: Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa (retd)
Publisher: Niyogi Books. 2007
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Author: Brinda Somaya
Title: Silent Sentinels: Traditional Architecture of Coorg
Publisher: The Hecar Foundation. 2005
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Authors: C.B. Muthamma and P. Gangamma Bopanna
Title: The Essential Kodava Cook Book
Publisher: Penguin
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Author: Dr S.V. Narasimhan
Title: Feathered Jewels of Coorg
Publisher: Coorg Wildlife Society. 2004
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Author: Ranee Vijaya Kuttaiah
Title: Cuisine from Coorg
Publisher: Sterling Publisher. 2000
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Author: Dr Veena Poonacha
Title: From the Land of a Thousand Hills: Portrait of Three Kodagu Women. 2002
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Author: Kavery Nambisan
Title: Scent of Pepper: A Novel
Publisher: Penguin Books. 1996
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Author: Lt. Col. K.C. Ponnappa (Retd)
Title: A Study of the Origins of Coorgs. 1997
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Author: John and Jeanette Isaac
Title: Coorg: The Land of the Kodavas
Publisher: Grantha Corporation. 1995
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Author: K.B. Ganapathy
Title: The Cross and the Coorgs: A Christian Saga in Coorg
Publisher: Writers Workshop, Kolkata. 1993
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Translator: Boverianda Maya Muddaiah
Title: Kodava Theeni (translated from Kodava Thak into English)
Publisher: Karnataka Kodava Sahithya Academy, Madikeri, 1998
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Author: Dervla Murphy
Title: On A Shoestring to Coorg. 1989
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Author: Kotera P. Muthanna
Title: Jagatige Ondey Kodagu. Foreword by Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa, published by the author in 1969
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Author: M.P. Cariappa and Ponnamma Cariappa
Title: The Coorgs and their Origins. 1981
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Author: Dr K.K. Subbayya
Title: Archaeology of Coorg. 1978
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Author: Jayanthi Belliappa
Title: A Sociological Study of Religious Concepts of the Coorgs. 1979
Publisher: Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
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Author: R. Balakrishnan
Title: Phonology of Kodagu with Vocabulary. 1976.
Title: A Grammar of Kodagu. 1977. Annamalai University
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Author: I.M. Muthanna
Title: A Tiny Model State of South India. 1953
Title: General Cariappa. 1964
Title: Coorg Memoirs. 1971
Title: General Thimmaiah. 1972
Title: Kodavas and their Gala Lela. 1987
Title: Tipu Sultan X-rayed. 1980
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Author: B.D. Ganapathy
Title: Kodavas (Coorgs): Their Customs and Culture. 1967
Title: Kodavas: A Comprehensive Study. 1980
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Author: M.N. Srinivas
Title: Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India, Oxford. 1952
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Author: Fraser
Title: Account of Coorg and the Coorgs under Vira Raja, London. 1796
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Author: Hilton Brown
Title: The Astonishing Land of Coorg (Blackwood’s Magazine), London, 1922
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Author: Lewis Rice
Title: Mysore and Coorg From the Inscriptions. 1909
Publisher: Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, 1986
Title: Mysore and Coorg – Volume III Coorg
Publisher: Mysore Government Press, 1878
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Author: G. Richter
Title: Gazetteer of Coorg. 1870
Publisher: Low Price Publications, Delhi-110052. Reprinted 1995
Title: The Ethnographical Compendium of the Castes and Tribes found in the Province of Coorg, Bangalore, 1887
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Author: Captain R.A. Cole
Title: An Elementary Grammar of the Coorg Language. 1867
Publisher: Wesleyan Mission Press, Bangalore
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Author: Rev. H. Moegling
Title: Coorg Memoirs: An Account of Coorg and the Coorg Mission.
Publisher: Wesleyan Mission Press, Bangalore. 1855
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Author: Capt. R.A. Cole
Title: Manual of Coorg Civil Law, Bangalore, 1861
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Author: Lt. P. Connor
Title: Memoirs of the Codagu Survey. 1817
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Author: Cathleen Ballantyne
Title: Plenty Salaams (life in coffee plantations of the 1880s) first published in 1954
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Author: E. Thurston
Title: The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press. 1913
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Author: U. Aitchison (compiler)
Title: A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads.
Publisher: Government of India Central Publication Branch, Calcutta. 1929
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Author: Appaneravanda Haradasa Appacha Kavi
Title of the four plays written in Kodava Thak between 1906 and 1920: Kaveri Nataka, Yayatiraja Nataka, Subramanya Nataka and Savitri Nataka.
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Author: Kalengada Ramesh Kariappa
Title: Kodava Paddhati (in Kodava Thak and Kannada) 1997
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Author: B. Emeneau Murray
Title: Kinship and Marriage Among the Coorgs
Publisher: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1938
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Author: Mandira Jaya Appanna
Title: Kodava Jayabharatha (Kodava Thak) . 2011
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Coorg/Kodagu District Gazetteer 1965, 1993.
Imperial Gazetteer of India, Coorg, Oxford. 1908
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Author: A. Michael Garman
Title: A Grammar of the Coorg Language, (unpublished thesis), University of Edinburgh, 1973
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Author: Rev. H. Heras
Title: Studies in Proto Indo Mediterranean Cultures, Bombay. 1953
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Author: Krishna Iyer
Title: Coorg Tribes and Castes, Madras, 1948
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Author: William jeafereson
Title: Coorg and its Rajahs, London, 1857
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Author: D.N. Krishnaiah
Title: Kodagina Itihasa (Kannada), University of Mysore, 1974
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Authors: R.K. Keshava Murthy and S.N. Yoganarasimhachar
Title: The Flora of Coorg, Bangalore, 1990
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Author: Sir Thomas H. Holland
Title: Coorgs and Yeravas – An Ethnological Contrast, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1901
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Author: Pandanda Muthanna
Title: Coorg and the Coorgs, 1931
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Compiled by Rajah Dodda Vira Rajendra
Title: Rajendraname (1630). Translated by Lt R. Abercrombie, 1857
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Author: Dr D.B. Ramachandrachar
Title: Kodagu Folk and Tribal Culture, Institute of Asian Studies, Madras, 1991
Title: Avakashada Alegala Mele (A biography of Chief Minister of Coorg State 1952-56, C.M.Poonacha, 1990
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Author: Dr P.S. Ramanujam
Title: Kodavaru (Kannada), University of Mysore, 1975
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Author: Alex Rea
Title: List of Archaeological and Architectural Remains in Coorg, Madras, 1894
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Author: Shankaranarayana Bhat
Title: Kodava Bhasheya Vyakarana (Kannada), Mysore, 2000
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Author: K.S. Rajyashree Subbayya
Title: Coorg Language – Phonology and Morphology (unpublished thesis, University of Poona) 1972
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Author: B.G. Kanty
Title: Coorg and its Rulers (thesis submitted to the University of Bombay, 1931
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Author: Coravanda Appayya
Title: Kodagara Kulacaradi Tatvojjivini (Kannada), 1902
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Author: Chendanda Dechamma Karumbaiah
Title: Kodava Gade Pinja Palanjoll (collection of proverbs and adages in Kodava Thak), 1982
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Author: M.G. Nagaraj
Title: Kembatti Holeyara Samskriti (Kannada), Bangalore, 1997
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Note: I acknowledge my thanks to Boverianda Nanjamma and Chinnappa, researchers, for their help in putting together the list. Regret if any book has been left out from the list.
Compiler of the book list: Journalist P.T. Bopanna
