Bangalore Nagarathnamma

Bangalore Nagarathnamma
Nagarathnamma with her pet dog c. 1929
Born(1878-11-03)3 November 1878
Nanjangud, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
Died19 May 1952(1952-05-19) (aged 73)
Thiruvaiyaru, Madras State, India
OccupationCarnatic singer

Bangalore Nagarathnamma (3 November 1878 – 19 May 1952)[1] was an Indian Carnatic singer, cultural activist, scholar, and devadasi.[2] A descendant of devadasis, she was also a patron of the arts and a historian.[3] Nagarathnamma built a temple over the samadhi of the Carnatic singer Tyagaraja at Thiruvaiyaru and helped establish the Tyagaraja Aradhana festival in his memory.[4] Within a male-dominated festival, she was the feminist strong enough to ensure that women artists were given equality to participate in it.[5] She "was among the last practitioners of the devadasi tradition in India,"[6] and the first president of the Association of the Devadasis of Madras Presidency. She also edited and published books on poetry and anthologies.

  1. ^ "విద్యాసుందరి – ఈమాట". November 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  2. ^ Ramamirthammal, Kannabiran & Kannabiran 2003, p. 34.
  3. ^ Chandra 2014, p. 165.
  4. ^ C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation 1980, p. 1.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Venkataraman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ McGonigal 2010, p. 76.