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| name = Daroji Eramma<br />
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| birth_date = 1930<br />
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|08|12|1930||df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Bellary]], [[Karnataka]], India<br />
| nationality = Indian <br />
| other_names = Burrakatha Eeramma<br />
| occupation = Folk singer and performer<br />
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| known_for = [[Burra katha]]<br />
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'''Daroji Eramma''', popularly known as '''Burrakatha Eeramma''', (1930–12 August 2014) was a folk singer and performer of the [[Burrakatha]], a folk art form of epic storytelling from [[South India]]. She was awarded several awards including the [[Rajyotsava Prashasti]] in 1999.<br />
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== Life ==<br />
Eramma was born in 1930 in a family from the semi-nomadic Buduga Janagama community, a [[scheduled caste]] tribe. She learnt the Burrakatha from her father Lalappa as a young adolescent, and had taught this folk art form to the members of her family and community.<ref name="Eramma obit">{{cite news|last1=Ahiraj|first1=M.|title=Daroji Eramma is no more|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/daroji-eramma-is-no-more/article6310358.ece|accessdate=25 March 2018|work=The Hindu|date=13 August 2014|language=en-IN}}</ref><br />
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Though illiterate, Eramma could perform twelve folk epics from memory, which amounts to 200,000 sentences and 7,000 pages in print.<ref name="Eramma awards">{{cite news|last1=Ahiraj|first1=M.|title=Janapada Shri Award for Daroji Eramma today|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/janapada-shri-award-for-daroji-eramma-today/article2918079.ece|accessdate=25 March 2018|work=The Hindu|date=22 February 2012|language=en-IN}}</ref> These folk epics include ''Kumararama'', ''Babbuli Nagireddi'', ''Baala Nagamma'', ''Jaisingaraaja Kavya'' and ''Bali Chakravarthi Kavya''.<ref name="Eramma awards" /><br />
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Her performances often lasted for days, accompanied by her sister, Shivamma, and her sister-in-law, Parvathamma on percussion, while Eramma herself would play a stringed instrument with one hand and bells with the other. She had participated in the awareness campaigns on and [[polio vaccine|polio vaccination]].<ref name="Eramma awards" /><br />
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She died on 12 August 2014 at [[Bellary]] in Karnataka. Her last rites were performed at her native village Daroji in Sandur Taluka of [[Bellary district]].<ref name="Eramma obit"/><br />
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== Recognition ==<br />
Daroji Eramma received the [[Rajyotsava Prashasti]] in 1999 as well as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Award instituted by [[Government of Karnataka]].<ref name="Eramma awards" /> She was awarded the Sandesha Arts Award in 2003 for her contribution to arts and folklore.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sandesha Awards - Sandesha - A foundation for culture and education|url=http://www.sandesha.org/sandesha-awards|website=www.sandesha.org|accessdate=25 March 2018|language=en-gb}}</ref> The Department of Tribal Studies, [[Kannada University]], Hampi felicitated her with the Nadoja Award in 2003.<ref name="Eramma obit" /> [[Prasar Bharati]] awarded her the Best Folk Artiste Award in 2010. She received the Janapada Shri for 2010 in 2012.<ref name="Eramma awards" /><br />
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A student of Hampi University, L. Sarikadevi, wrote her 2006 doctoral thesis on Eramma, which helped to popularise Eramma and her practice.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bharadwaj|first1=K V Aditya|title=Burrakatha Eramma selected for Janapada Shri Award - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysuru/Burrakatha-Eramma-selected-for-Janapada-Shri-Award/articleshow/11970271.cms|accessdate=25 March 2018|work=The Times of India}}</ref> Some of her performances have been recorded and published by Chalavaraju, a scholar of intangible heritage based at the Kannada University.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ahiraj|first1=M.|title=A great honour has been bestowed on me: Eeramma|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/a-great-honour-has-been-bestowed-on-me-eeramma/article18487578.ece#!|accessdate=25 March 2018|work=The Hindu|date=27 November 2006|language=en-IN}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1930 births]]<br />
[[Category:2014 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian female folk singers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian storytellers]]<br />
[[Category:Women storytellers]]<br />
[[Category:People from Bellary]]<br />
[[Category:Indian folk musicians]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 1999]]<br />
[[Category:Women musicians from Karnataka]]<br />
[[Category:Singers from Karnataka]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian women singers]]<br />
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