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	'''Sannappa Parameshwar Gaonkar''' (11 January 1885 – 1972), also called '''Sa.Pa. Gaonkar''', was an ~~[[India]]n~~ politician, and an author. Sapa. Gaonkar was often described as "Sajjan"', or "good and gentle".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QaSWBH68NQYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=%22SP+Gaonkar%22&ots=46RTKlr1Ff&sig=KUxH1_6Z92LAJXlZNcxeashDznI - [[D. R. Bendre]] remembers SAPA and [[V. K. Gokak]]]</ref>		'''Sannappa Parameshwar Gaonkar''' (11 January 1885 – 1972), also called '''Sa.Pa. Gaonkar''', was an Indian politician, and an author. Sapa. Gaonkar was often described as "Sajjan"', or "good and gentle".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QaSWBH68NQYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=%22SP+Gaonkar%22&ots=46RTKlr1Ff&sig=KUxH1_6Z92LAJXlZNcxeashDznI ''Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (Ambikatanayadatta)''] - [[D. R. Bendre]] remembers SAPA and [[V. K. Gokak]]</ref>
	Gaonkar was imprisoned during the [[British Raj]] for having participated in the [[Quit India Movement]], and later served as a Deputy Minister in [[B. G. Kher]]’s cabinet of the composite [[State of Bombay]], India.		Gaonkar was imprisoned during the [[British Raj]] for having participated in the [[Quit India Movement]], and later served as a Deputy Minister in [[B. G. Kher]]’s cabinet of the composite [[State of Bombay]], India.

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| death_place = [[Ankola]]
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'''Sannappa Parameshwar Gaonkar''' (11 January 1885 – 1972), also called '''Sa.Pa. Gaonkar''', was an [[India]]n politician, and an author. Sapa. Gaonkar was often described as "Sajjan"', or "good and gentle".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QaSWBH68NQYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=%22SP+Gaonkar%22&ots=46RTKlr1Ff&sig=KUxH1_6Z92LAJXlZNcxeashDznI - [[D. R. Bendre]] remembers SAPA and [[V. K. Gokak]]]</ref>
Gaonkar was imprisoned during the [[British Raj]] for having participated in the [[Quit India Movement]], and later served as a Deputy Minister in [[B. G. Kher]]’s cabinet of the composite [[State of Bombay]], India.

Sannappa Parameshwara Gaonkar (Grandson of Ram Gaonkar) was born on 11 January 1885 in [[Torke]]. Sa.Pa. was a headmaster of the Kannada Primary School, at [[Tadadi]]. At the age of 40 (1925), Gaonkar graduated from the [[Willingdon college, Sangli]]. He was an officer at [[Hubli]] municipality. After his retirement in the year 1942, S. P. Gaonkar participated in Quit India movement and joined the [[Swaraj Party]]. In the year 1946–47, B. G. Kher nominated Gaonkar as a Deputy Minister in his cabinet of the composite state of Bombay, India. It was Gaonkar, in the year 1936, who helped to organize the Kannada [[Sahitya Academy]] Sammelana in [[Gokarna, India|Gokarna]].

SAPA was the paternal grandfather of [[Dilip Gaonkar]] a professor at [[Northwestern University]].

==His work (poetry and writings)==
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* Mugilu Kavan (1932)
* Raitar Golu
* Nadakale
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* Ankoleyavanu
* [[Gitanjali]] ( A translation of [[Rabindranath Tagore]]’s Gitanjali into [[Kannada]] language) (1962).
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==References==
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[[Category:Indian independence activists from Karnataka]]
[[Category:1885 births]]
[[Category:1972 deaths]]
[[Category:Kannada people]]
[[Category:Kannada-language writers]]
[[Category:People from Uttara Kannada]]
[[Category:Indian schoolteachers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian educators]]
[[Category:Educators from Karnataka]]

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