Jayadevi Taayi Ligade

Jayadevi Taayi Ligade
Born	(1912-06-23)23 June 1912[1] Solapur, British India[1]
Died	24 July 1986(1986-07-24) (aged 74)[1] Basavakalyan, India
Nationality	Indian
Awards	Sahitya Akademi Award Devaraja Bahaddur Award

Jayadevitai Ligade (23 June 1912 – 24 July 1986) was an Indian poet and activist who wrote in the Kannada and Marathi languages.^[2]: 306

Ligade was president of the 48th Kannada Sahitya Parishat, a non-profit promoting literature in the Kannada language, held in Mandya in 1974, and the first female president of the conference.^[1] She fought to unify Sholapur with Karnataka on the grounds of the majority Kannada-speaking community in the city.^{[2]: 45, 306} She has published several books on Sharana Sahitya in Kannada and Marathi, and wrote Siddarama purana, Sri Siddarameshwara.^[3][4] She also contributed funds to publishing Sharana Sahitya material.^[5]

Ligade was president of the Veerashaiva Women's Council (ಅಖಿಲ ಭಾರತ ವೀರಶೈವ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಪರಿಷತ್ತಿನ) and a member of the Central Sahitya Academy. She received the State Sahitya Academy Award and the Devaraja Bahaddur Award (ದೇವರಾಜ ಬಹಾದ್ದೂರ್ ಬಹುಮಾನ).^[1]

References

1. "ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಮ್ಮೇಳನ-೪೮ : ಮಂಡ್ಯಮೇ-ಜೂನ್ ೧೯೭೪ – ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು (Literary Conference 48: Mandya, May-June 1974)". Kannada Sahitya Parishat. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
2. Shankaragouda Hanmantagouda Patil (April 2002). Community Dominance and Political Modernisation: The Lingayats. Karnataka, India: Mittal Publications. ISBN 9788170998679. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
3. Lingayat Religion- Siddarameswara
4. The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume Five (Sasay To Zorgot) - Mohan Lal - Google Boeken
5. "Vachana Sahitya Sammelan in Sakleshpur today". The Hindu. 30 January 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2020.