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Conjeevaram Hayavadana Rao (10 July 1865 – 27 January 1946) was an Indian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, museologist,

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and polyglot. He was a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Indian Historical Records Commission and a fellow of the Royal Society of Economics. A road near Ashram Citcle ( Basavanagudi ) , Bengaluru " Sri Hayavadana Rao Road " named in his honour.

Early life

Hayavadana Rao was born on 10 July 1865 in the town of Hosur in the then

Salem district Salem District is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The district is now divided into Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Namakkal as individual districts. Salem is the district headquarters and other major towns in the dis ...

Madras Presidency The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India. At its greatest extent, the presidency i ...

in a

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

-speaking family. After graduating in history, Rao studied law and economics and joined the Government Museum, Madras as a curator. Rao worked as a curator till his retirement and compiled "The Indian Biographical Dictionary". Rao was a polyglot and was fluent in English,

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, French, German,

, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and

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Mysore Kingdom

In 1924, Rao was appointed the head of a committee formed to revise the ''Mysore Gazetteer'' written by B. L. Rice. The revised version comprising seven volumes was published in 1927. Rao followed this with a three-volume ''History of Mysore (1399-1799)'' chronicling the Wodeyar Dynasty.

Later life and death

Rao died on 27 January 1946 in

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References and sources

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