P. Gururaja Bhat

Paduru Gururaja Bhat
Paduru Gururaja Bhat
	Paduru Gururaja Bhat
Born	1924; Paduru, Udupi district, Karnataka
Died	1978
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Historian, Academician, Professor, Author

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

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[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "About Dr. Bhat". Paduru Gururaja Bhat Memorial Trust. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
^ The Hindu, 1 Sept 2009: "Tributes paid to Gururaja Bhat."
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Pedarapu Chenna Reddy and , 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."[1]
^ Interview with Dr. Jagadeesh Shetty. Archived 31 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ The Milagres College, Kallianpur. Archived 25 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine
^ P. Gururaja Bhatt, Antiquities of South Kanara, Prabhakara Press, 1969, 31 pages.[2]
^ Temples of Dakshina Kannada