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Krishna Kolhar KulkarniKrishna Kolhar Kulkarni (born 1939) is a Kannada historian from Vijayapura.[1] He is also a research scholar who works include extensive research on Dasa Sahitya.[2] He wrote more than 50 books. At least 14 of them were on Dasa Sahitya. He received the Kanakashree award, in recognition of his research on Dasa Sahitya.[3] He is the president of the Karnataka Gamaka Kala Parishat.[3] He worked and used gamaka to popularise literature.[3] He also served as the director of Dr. P. G. Halakatti Research Centre in Bijapur.[4][5] He hails from Kolhar village, Bijapur, which is on the banks of river Krishna, in the erstwhile Bijapur district.[6] Kulkarni heads the Adil Shahi Literature Translation Project. Under the project seven volumes were commissioned to be translated by January 2024.[7][5] The project started by M. M. Kalaburgi was completed in 2019.[8] Kulkarni inaugurated the first Dasa Sahitya Sammelan in Bidar.[9] The professor also translated, the ancient history of the dynasty that ruled Bijapur from Persian to Kannada.[3] One of his books is Kannadalli Seriruva Arabbi Persia bhasha padagalu, published by Samanvita.[10] He is also an irrigation activist and welcomed the final award of the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal with former Supreme Court judge Brijesh Kumar as its head in 2014.[11] He also opposed changing the name of the district.[12] Awards
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