Multiple choice general knowledge culture

The term Rashtrapati, the native word in India to refer the nation's President, was first suggested by which Kannada poet?

  1. Kuvempu

  2. T.N. Srikantaiah

  3. Da Ra Bendre

  4. Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
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Explanation

T.N. Srikantaiah (famously known as 'Ti.Nam.Shri') was indeed the Kannada poet who first suggested 'Rashtrapati' as the native term for India's President, during a discussion in the 1940s about Indianizing constitutional terminology. Kuvempu, Bendre, and Masti were his contemporaries but not associated with this suggestion.

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