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Kabettu Yelnaduguttu Shivappa Hegde


Kabettu Yelnaduguttu Shivappa Hegde (1871 – 1931) was a philanthropist, visionary, social reformer and a leader who mainly worked for the betterment of people of his village. He was the ruler of 7 villages. He ran a parallel court in his village where he had a cult following who could give their life to keep him safe from his enemies, these people were mainly the ones who couldn’t voice against so called superiors of the society, and he stood for them and became their voice. He was an iconic figure not just for the Heggade community but for the entire Dakshina Kannada.

Early life and Background

Shivappa Hegde was born around 1870’s in Kabettu, Karkala, Dakshina Kannada, the son of Valpadi Koragappa Hegde and his wife Yelnaduguttu Manjamma Heggadthi. The family belonged to the Heggade community of Dakshina Kannada referred TULUNadu of Karnataka. His father was an agriculturist and a visionary and mother belonged to a landlord family. Community basically followed the Aliyakattu custom where nephew (eldest sister’s eldest son) is the legal heir of the family. He had 8 sisters and was the only son to take over from his uncles and to become chief of 7 villages which came under Kabettu guttu manetana referred as Yelnadu guttu. Yel in Kannada is 7 and Nadu is village.

He married Kuntadi, Mabhiguttu Somakka Heggadthi, daughter of Appanna Hegde, Patel of Nakre Karkala and Madhiguttu Akkamma Heggadthi and had 7 children, 4 daughters and 3 sons, Kamala Hegde, Sundar Hegde, Rajeevi Hegde, Gulabi Hegde, Sanjeevi Hegde and Krishnayya Hegde. Unfortunately, he lost his eldest daughter to a fire accident when she was hardly 5 years old, family still feels her existence around them and there are incidences to support that.

Service to Society

He built Nagabrahma temple, Venugopala Krishna Temple, Kabettu School and Many temples at different places. He built a well in the centre of Kabettu village for which is used by the villagers still.

Assassination

Shivappa Hegde, though he came from a landlord family he mainly worked for the betterment of people who belonged to lower castes, people who are financially weak, who couldn’t voice against rich and powerful and became their voice. This was not taken well from the so-called superiors of the society, and they wanted him dead, there were many attacks on him in one such incident where the opposite who couldn’t defeat him lawfully planned for his assassination and sent out a request to him to attend one of the village regional functions stating they want to end decades of enmity and live cordially. Though he knew the intensions, he wanted to take a chance and without thinking he went all alone to never come back to his wife and children. They say killing him was impossible unless the assistants had help from insiders.

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