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Karpur Srinivasa Rao

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{{WikiProject India}} PrasannaKUSA (talk) 18:18, 5 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for reviewing this submission. I have noted your three concerns and would like to address each with reference to sources already in the article.

1. Secondary individual references including news media: The article already contains multiple independent published sources that specifically discuss Karpur Srinivasa Rao as an individual:

D.V. Gundappa (1970/2019), Jnapakachitrashaale, Vol. 3 — a dedicated biographical essay by one of Karnataka's most celebrated writers (Sahitya Akademi Award recipient), published in English translation at Prekshaa.in. This is significant third-party literary analysis.

T. Ramakrishnan (2024), Cauvery: A Long-Winded Dispute, The Hindu Group — a 2024 published book by one of India's major media houses that explicitly names KSR in the context of the 1924 Cauvery negotiations.

Ashwathanarayana G. (2015), Kannada Sahitya Parishattu 100, Kannada Sahitya Parishat — the institutional centenary history of the KSP dedicates a biographical section to him.

Dakshini MarathiAdda (2020) — an independent biographical article about KSR specifically.

Star of Mysore (2015) — newspaper coverage of the KSP founding.

2. Career impact and historical significance: The article contains a dedicated ==Legacy== section documenting the current impact of his works: the KRS Dam now supplies 1,450 million litres per day to Bengaluru (The Hindu, 2023); the 1924 Cauvery Agreement he negotiated governed inter-state water sharing for 50 years (Guhan, 1993); the Chamarajpet layout he designed became the template for Malleshwaram and Basavanagudi (Nair, 2005, Oxford University Press, pp. 38–41); and the KSP he co-founded now has 500,000 members. I will strengthen the framing of these points in the opening paragraph.

3. Third-party analysis for notability: In addition to the published sources above, the article cites:

S. Visvesvaraya (1951), Memoirs of My Working Life, Government of India Publications — India's most celebrated engineer (Bharat Ratna, 1955) names KSR by name and quotes him at p.48.

History of the Mysore Public Works Department (1856–1956), Government Press, 1956 — official government publication naming KSR at p.115.

Janaki Nair (2005), The Promise of the Metropolis, Oxford University Press — academic book citing his urban planning work.

S. Guhan (1993), The Cauvery River Dispute, Madras Institute of Development Studies — gold-standard scholarly source on the dispute he helped resolve.

I will make these sources more prominent in the article. PrasannaKUSA (talk) PrasannaKUSA (talk) 19:15, 28 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I have made the following changes:

Change 1 — Strengthened opening paragraph (addresses concern 3: notability) Added a second paragraph immediately after the biographical introduction that explicitly cites four independent published sources about KSR:

DVG's dedicated essay in Jnapakachitrashaale (1970), describing him as a literary and cultural figure — with DVG identified as a Sahitya Akademi Award recipient

Ramakrishnan (2024), The Hindu Group — naming him in the Cauvery negotiations

PWD History (1956) — official government publication naming him

Nair (2005), Oxford University Press — documenting his Chamarajpet work

Change 2 — Legacy section moved earlier (addresses concern 2: historical significance) The Legacy section now appears immediately after the Career section, before Personal life. A reviewer reading the article will encounter the current real-world impact (1,450 MLD water supply, Cauvery framework, Chamarajpet template, KSP scale) much sooner.

Change 3 — Further reading section added (addresses concern 1: secondary references) A new ==Further reading== section lists four published third-party sources with full descriptions, placed before See also. This makes it immediately visible that independent published literature exists on the subject.

Change 4 — DVG strengthened in Association section DVG now identified as "one of Karnataka's foremost writers and a Sahitya Akademi Award recipient" — making it clear this is significant third-party recognition, not just a family account. PrasannaKUSA (talk) 19:16, 28 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Shortened the article substantially as per the recommendation of the second reviewer and removed words and sentences that can be seen as puffery. PrasannaKUSA (talk) 20:13, 28 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

The following non-English sources cited in the article each provide significant independent coverage of the subject: DVG (D.V. Gundappa), Jnapakachitrashaale Vol. 3 (1970), Essay 12 — A dedicated two-part biographical essay about Karpur Srinivasa Rao by D.V. Gundappa (Padma Bhushan 1974, Sahitya Akademi Award 1960), one of Karnataka's most celebrated writers. Published by the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs, Bangalore. English translation available at Prekshaa.in (linked in External links). Ashwathanarayana G., Kannada Sahitya Parishattu 100 (2015) — Institutional centenary history of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat published by the Parishat itself. Contains a dedicated biographical section on KSR as co-founder and Vice-President, and reproduces a primary source Palace letter (No. 58, 14 September 1926) addressed specifically to him. Mysuru Mithra, 7 July 2024 — Established Kannada newspaper published from Mysore since 1973. The article appears in their "Extraordinary people of our Mysore" series (item 26) and is specifically about Karpur Srinivasa Rao. Dakshini MarathiAdda (2020) — Dedicated biographical article in English about KSR specifically, published by the Dakshin Marathi community of Bangalore. T. Ramakrishnan, Cauvery: A Long-Winded Dispute (2024), The Hindu Group — A 2024 published book by a senior journalist of The Hindu that specifically names Karpur Srinivasa Rao as the lead engineer of the Mysore delegation in the 1924 Cauvery negotiations.

Supplementary note (July 2026): Adding direct URLs to the English translation of DVG's essay for reviewer convenience: Part 1: https://www.prekshaa.in/Karpura-Srinivasa-Rao-Part-1 Part 2: https://www.prekshaa.in/Karpura-Srinivasa-Rao-Part-2 Both are authorised English translations and can be read in full without knowing Kannada. PrasannaKUSA (talk) 00:58, 31 July 2026 (UTC)Reply