P. Gururaja Bhat

Paduru Gururaja Bhat
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Born	1924
Died	1978
Occupation	Historian, Academician, Professor, Author

Dr. Paduru Gururaja Bhat (1924-1978^[1]) was a teacher and pioneering historian^[2] and archaeologist^[3] of Tulu Nadu, and of Barkur, the ancient capital of the Tulu kingdom.^[4] He was born in the Paduru village of Udupi district, Karnataka.^[1]

Bhat graduated from the University of Madras in 1952, received a Masters Degree in History from the Banaras Hindu University in 1956, and received a Doctor of Philosophy 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 the The Milagres College, Kallianpur, from 1967 to 1976.^[5]

Books

• 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).

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. ^ ^{a b c d} Dr. Paduru Gururaja Bhat Memorial Trust.
2. ^ The Hindu, 1 Sept 2009: "Tributes paid to Gururaja Bhat."
3. ^ ^{a b} 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 8188934380, 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]
4. ^ Interview with Dr. Jagadeesh Shetty.
5. ^ The Milagres College, Kallianpur.
6. ^ P. Gururaja Bhatt, Antiquities of South Kanara, Prabhakara Press, 1969, 31 pages.[2]
7. ^ Temples of Dakshina Kannada

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Date of birth	1924
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Date of death	1978
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