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[[File:Ranganayaki Rajagopalan.png|thumb|Kalaimamani Veenai Smt. Ranganayaki Rajagopalan]]<br />
'''Ranganayaki Rajagopalan''' (3 May 1932 – 20 September 2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brhaddhvani.org/ranganayaki-rajagopalan/|title=Ranganayaki Rajagopalan|date=25 September 2018|publisher=}}</ref> was an award-winning [[veena]] instrumentalist, recipient of the [[Kalaimamani]] and winner of a [[Rashtrapati Award|Presidential Award]] for [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] Instrumental Music. <br />
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==Early life and background==<br />
Ranganayaki came under the tutelage of Sangeetha Kalanidhi [[Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer]] at the early age of two and started training in the strict [[Gurukula]] system, until the death of Sambasiva Iyer in 1958.<ref>{{cite news|last=Holden|first=Stephen|title=Sounds Around Town|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/23/arts/sounds-around-town-109593.html|accessdate=20 July 2010|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 April 1993}}</ref><ref name="Titon2008">{{cite book|author=Jeff Todd Titon|title=Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzWmpqPTCwYC&pg=PA289|accessdate=19 July 2013|year=2008|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-534-59539-5|pages=289–}}</ref> <br />
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==Career==<br />
Her first performance was in aid of the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] building at [[Madras]] and held in [[Karaikudi]] under the President-ship of the veteran Congressman Subramaniam who belonged to Karaikudi.<br />
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In 1952, she accompanied her Guru Sambasiva Iyer to the 26th Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the [[Madras Music Academy]] (commonly known as Music Academy) and was presented with a Silver casket by the [[Sri Prakasa]], the former Governor of Madras.<br />
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In 1970, she was selected as the best veena player by the Music Academy and was presented with a veena by the then Governor of [[Mysore]] Dharma Veera.<br />
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In 1979, she was awarded the title of "[[Kalaimamani]]" by the then [[List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu|Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu]] [[M. G. Ramachandran]].<br />
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On 26 January 1984, she was conferred the title "Veena Visaradha" in a felicitation ceremony conducted under the auspices of Balasubramania Sabha. Her collection is part of the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://folkways.si.edu/south-india-ranganayaki-rajagopalan-continuity-in-the-karaikudi-vina-style/world/music/album/smithsonian|title=South India: Ranganayaki Rajagopalan—Continuity in the Karaikudi Vina Style|website=Smithsonian Folkways Recordings|accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref><br />
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