P. Gururaja Bhat

Paduru Gururaja Bhat (1924 – 27 August, 1978[1]) was a teacher, historian[2] and archaeologist[3] of Tulu Nadu and of Barkur, the ancient capital of the Tulu kingdom.[4]

Paduru Gururaja Bhat
Paduru Gururaja Bhat
Born1924
Paduru, Udupi district, Karnataka
Died1978
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Historian, academician, professor, author

Career

Born in 1924 in the village of Paduru in Karnataka's Udupi district,[1] Bhat graduated from the University of Madras in 1952. He received a master's degree in history from the Banaras Hindu University in 1956 and a PhD from the University of Mysore in 1968.[1] His thesis was entitled A Political and Cultural History of Tulu-nadu from the earliest times up to AD 1600.[3]

Bhat taught at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College in Udupi,[1] and was the founder-principal of Milagres College, Kallianpur, from 1967 to 1976.[5]

Books
  • Tulunadu
  • Antiquities of South Kanara (1969), Prabhakara Press.[6]
  • Tulunadina Nagamandala (1977), Kannada language.
  • Studies in Tuluva history and culture: From the pre-historic times upto [sic] the modern (1975).
  • Tulunadina Itihasadalli Sthanikaru - Devesthana Adaliteya Ithihasika Adhyayana (written in Kannada)/ Sthanikas in the History of Tulunadu - A Historical study on temple management, 1966

Another book, Temples of Dakshina Kannada, was started by P Gururaj Bhat, but was suspended for a long time after his death. The project was later completed by Prof. Muralidhara Upadhya and Dr. P N Narasimhamurthy.[7]

References
  1. "About Dr. Bhat". Paduru Gururaja Bhat Memorial Trust. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  2. The Hindu, 1 Sept 2009: "Tributes paid to Gururaja Bhat."
  3. Pedarapu Chenna Reddy and Inguva Karthikeya Sarma, Mahāsenasiri: Riches of Indian Archaeological & Cultural Studies: A felicitation volume in honour of Dr. I. K. Sarma, Volume 1, Sharada Pub. Co., 2006, ISBN 81-88934-38-0, p. 235: "Archaeological research, however, in its true sense began some time in the sixth decade of the twentieth century when P. Gururaja Bhat started working for his doctoral thesis A Political and Cultural History of Tulu-nadu from the earliest times up to AD 1600."
  4. Interview with Dr. Jagadeesh Shetty. Archived 31 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  5. The Milagres College, Kallianpur. Archived 25 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  6. P. Gururaja Bhatt, Antiquities of South Kanara, Prabhakara Press, 1969, 31 pages.
  7. Temples of Dakshina Kannada


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