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Biographical Information about Shri Adya Rangacharya (Pen name Sriranga)

Name : Adya Rangacharya (formerly R.V.Jagirdar)

Date of birth: 26 th September, 1904 at Agarkhed, Dist. Bijapur, now in Karnataka

Education :

• Shrikrishna Pathashala and Government High School, Bijapur
• B.A. (First Class), Deccan College, Pune, Bombay University (1925)
• Was a Dakshina Fellow at Deccan College
• M.A. (with distinction) London University, in Linguistics, School of Oriental Studies, London (1928)

Positions held :

1. Lecturer in Sanskrit, Karnatak College, Dharwad 1930-1949
2. Officer on Special Duty, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, New Delhi
3. Organised the Song & Drama Division for the First Five Year Plan Publicity. Later Script Officer in the same division (1954-1956)
4. Drama Producer, All India Radio, Bangalore (1956-1959)
5. Emeritus Producer, All India Radio and Doordarshan, 1979-1981
6. First Director, Kalidasa Academy, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
7. Member, General Council and Executive Board, Central Sangeet Natak Academy. Was elected Fellow of the same in 1967
8. Member, General Council, Central Sahitya Academy
9. Member, General Council and Executive Board, Mysore State Sangeet Natak Academy
10. Chairman, Drama Standing Committee, Mysore State Sangeet Natak Academy
11. Chairman, Mysore State Sahitya Academy, 1971-1972
12. Director, Summer Training Camp in Dramatics, Mysore State Sangeet Natak Academy, for nine years
13. Founder President, Natya Sangha (Theatre Centre) Mysore State
14. Member, Deccan College, Post Graduate Research Institute Pune
15. Member, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune.
16. Presided over the Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, Raichur, 1955

Awards and Distinctions :

• Awarded the D.Litt (Honoris Causa) by Myore and Karnatak Universities, 1976
• Playwright’s Award, Central Sangeet Natak Academy 1963
• Fellowship, Central Sangeet Natak Academy 1968
• Central Sahitya Akademi Award for Kalidasa – a critical study, 1972
• Padma Bhushan, 1972

Visits abroad :

• Visited the XIII Music and Theatre Festival, Berlin as a delegate of the Government of India, in 1969
• Visited Hungary to lecture on Indian Theatre and Indian Culture
• Visited Germany and Hungary, 1976 on an invitation from the Ministry of Culture, New Delhi

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