Happy Kannada Rajyotsava ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ
Happy Kannada Rajyotsava ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ to All Kannadigas - Ram Kannada Rajyotsava (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ ) , or the Karnataka Formation Day ( literally "Birth of the Kannada State" ) is celebrated on 1st November every year. This was the day in 1956 when all the Kannada speaking regions of south India were merged to form the state of Karnataka. On this day in 1956, Mysore state, comprising most of the area of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, was merged with the Kannada speaking areas of the Bombay and Madras presidencies, as also of the principality of Hyderabad, to create a unified Kannada-speaking sub-national entity. The newly unified state initially retained the name "Mysore", which was that of the erstwhile princely state which formed the core of the new entity. Celebrating Kannada Rajyotsava On November 1st every year Kannada is one of the major Dravidian languages of India, spoken predominantly in the southern state of Karnata