Jayadevi Taayi Ligade

Dr. Jayadevi tai Ligade is a prominent woman writer of Kannada. She became the president of Kannada Sahitya Parishattu. She fought to unify Sholapur with Karnataka on the linguistic grounds of majority Kannada-speaking community in the city. She has published several books on sharana sahitya in Kannada and Marathi, and wrote Siddarama purana, Sri Siddarameshwara. She also helped by paying some donation in inventing and publishing sharana sahitya.