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Hebbalalu Velpanuru Nanjundayya (1860 - 1920) was the founding president of the Kannada Sahitya Sammelana

Kannada Sahitya Sammelana

Kannada Sahitya Sammelana is the premier gathering of writers, poets and kannadigas. It is held with the aim of preserving and developing Kannada language, its literature, arts, culture and music. It was started in 1915 and held at Bangalore for the first time. It used to be inaugurated by...

 established in 1915. He presided over Kannada Sahitya Sammelana from 1915 to 1917 held in Bangaloer and Mysore. He authored books on legal matters.

He earned a M.A. and a M.L.(Law degree) from the Madras University. Nanjundaiah was the first vice-chancellor of Mysore University. He died in the year 1920 at Mysore while still in office as vice-chancellor. Nanjundaiah was a senior judge in the then Mysore State High Court and the acting Diwan of Mysore.