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== Early life ==

Hiriya Kempe Gowda(Hiriya meaning elder in [[Kannada]]) was born in the [[Yelahanka]] suburb of [[Bangalore]] in the [[Vokkaliga#Morasu Vokkaliga|Morasu Vokkaliga]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Rao|first=C. Hayavadana|date=1927|title=Mysore Gazetteer|volume=1|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275385/page/n269/mode/2up?q=Vokkaligas|location=Bangalore |publisher=Government Press|page=244|isbn=}}</ref> community to Kempananje Gowda, the ruler of Yelhanka for more than 70 years.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} The Morasu Vokkaligas were [[Vijayanagara]] vassals at Yelahanka.

Sources vary on the ancestry of Kempe Gowda. [[Burton Stein]] and others note that Morasu Vokkaligas were [[Telugu people|Telugu]] migrants to the Morasu-nadu area in the fourteenth century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stein |first=Burton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpxeaYQbGDMC&q=Morasu |title=The New Cambridge History of India: Vijayanagara |date=1990 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-26693-2 |pages=82 |language=en |quote=On the northern boundary of the future core of that kingdom was the area called Morasu-nadu (modern Bangalore and Tumkur districts) dominated by one of the large sections of the southern Karnatak peasantry, Morasu Vokkaligas, who seemed to have been Telugu migrants to the area in the fourteenth century. |author-link=Burton Stein}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Nair |first=Janaki |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wePZAAAAMAAJ |title=The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth Century |date=2005 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-566725-7 |pages=28 |language=en |quote=Kempegowda was one of many Telugu warrior chieftains (palegars) of the late Vijayanagara state who made incursions into Tamil and Karnataka regions, and established their rule over vast agricultural tracts.}}</ref> Some state that they were originally from [[Karnataka]]<ref>{{cite book |editor=S. Anees Siraj |date=2011|title=Karnataka State Gazetteer: Kolar District|url=http://gazetteer.kar.nic.in/gazetteer/pdf/2011-20-0/Chpt%20-%203.pdf|location=|publisher=Karnataka Gazetteer Department, Government of Karnataka|page=258|quote=The Morasu Okkaligas originally belong to Karnataka.}}</ref> and were a [[Kannada]]-speaking community,<ref name="Kamath">{{cite book |editor=Suryanath U. Kamath |date=1990|title=Karnataka State Gazetteer: Bangalore district |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bo8BAAAAMAAJ&q=uttur|location=|publisher=Director of Print., Stationery and Publications at the Government Press|page=61|quote=Uttur in Yenamanji Nadu in present day Mulbagal tq could be the place of their origin. It is likely that the family also spoke Telugu as it was a popular literary medium in Vijayangara times. But all the Marasu Vakkalus are Kannada speaking.}}</ref><ref name="pollock">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak9csfpY2WoC&dq=Kempegowda&pg=PA378 |title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia |date=2003 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0520228219 |editor=Sheldon Pollock |location=Berkeley, California |page=378 |oclc=46828947 |quote=But even writers from purely Kannada- speaking communities took to writing in Telugu, which raises questions again on the relationship between writerly choices and languages. Kempegowda (1513–1569), the builder of the city of Bangalore, wrote Gañgagaurivilasa (The play of Gañga and Gauri), a yaksagana ( verse-play) in Telugu}}</ref> although well-versed in [[Telugu language|Telugu]].<ref name="pollock" /><ref name="Kamath" /> Some sources mention that they were a [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-speaking community from [[Kanchipuram|Kanchi]] which moved to present-day Karnataka in the early 15th century to serve in Vijayanagara armies.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The New Cambridge History of India:Vijayanagara|last=Stein|first=Burton|year=1990|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9781139055611|page=82}}</ref>