Pillaipundagudi Thiruvengadattaiyangar Srinivasa Iyengar (1863–1931) was an

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who wrote books on the history of South India.

Academic career

Srinivasa Iyengar served as the Principal of A. V. N. College,

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during the first two decades of the twentieth century. He campaigned to bring changes in the curriculum and introduce spoken dialects. In 1909, he created a Telugu teaching Reform society in order to cultivate vernacular Telugu. In 1911, Iyengar published a textbook of arithmetic called Longman's ''Arithmethikkulu'' in modern Telugu. In April 1913, when

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appointed a committee to examine and advise them on the style to be adopted for the Telugu composition of the Intermediate Course which replaced the earlier F.A., Iyengar was appointed one of the ten members. He was serving as Principal and Professor of

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Training College, when he was appointed Reader of Indian History and archaeology with fellow Indologists Dr. S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar and

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as the sole Professor and Lecturer respectively. He probably served as Reader till his death in 1931.

Books

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iyengar, P. T. Srinivasa 1863 births 1931 deaths 19th-century Indian historians Dravidologists Indian Indologists Scientists from Visakhapatnam University of Madras faculty 20th-century Indian historians Scholars from Andhra Pradesh