Paduru Gururaja Bhat (1924 – 27 August, 1978) was a teacher, historian and archaeologist of

Tulu Nadu Tulu Nadu, or Tulunad, is a region and Proposed states and union territories of India, proposed state on the southwestern coast of India. The Tulu people, known as 'Tuluva' (pl. 'Tuluver') are speakers of Tulu language, Tulu, a Dravidian langu ...

and of

Barkur Barkur (also spelt Barcoor) is an area in the Brahmavara taluk, Udupi district of Karnataka state in India, comprising three villages, Hosala, Hanehalli, and Kachoor. The area is located on the bank of River Seetha. It is also referred to as a ...

, the ancient capital of the Tulu kingdom.

Career

Born in 1924 in the village of Paduru in

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

Udupi district Udupi district (also Udipi () in Kannada or Odipu () in Tulu language) is an administrative subdivision in the Karnataka state of India, with the district headquarters in the city of Udupi. It is situated in the Canara old north Malabar c ...

, Bhat graduated from the

University of Madras The University of Madras is a public university, public State university (India), state university in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and most prominent universities in India, incorporated by an ...

in 1952. He received a master's degree in history from the

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU), formerly Benares Hindu University, is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, ...

in 1956 and a PhD from the

University of Mysore The University of Mysore is a public state university in Mysore, Karnataka, India. The university was founded during the reign of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV and the premiership of Sir M. Visvesvaraya. The university is recognised by t ...

in 1968. His thesis was entitled ''A Political and Cultural History of Tulu-nadu from the earliest times up to AD 1600''. Bhat taught at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College in Udupi, and was the founder-principal of Milagres College, Kallianpur, from 1967 to 1976.

Books

* Tulunadu * ''Antiquities of South Kanara'' (1969), Prabhakara Press. * ''Tulunadina Nagamandala'' (1977),

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 ...

language. * ''Studies in Tuluva history and culture: From the pre-historic times upto icthe 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 * ''Dakshina Kannadada Tuluvaru Tulwa Samskritiyu'' (IBH Prakashana, Bangalore, 1972) –Kannada * ''Udupiya Itihasa'' (IBH Prakashana, Bangalore, 1972) –Kannada * ''Barakuru'' (IBH Prakasana, Bangalore, 1972) –Kannada * ''Mandartiya Samikshe'' (Published by the Executive officer of the Durga-Parameshvari Temple, Mandarti, 1971) – Kannada language * ''Ambalpadiya Ithihasa'' (Published by the Janardhana-Mahakali Temple, Ambalapadi, Udupi, 1967) –Kannada * ''Kadri Sri-Manjunatha Devalaya'' (Published by the Manager, Sri Manjunatha Temple, Kadri, Mangalore, 1974) –Kannada 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.

References

20th-century Indian historians Kannada-language writers 1924 births 1978 deaths People from Udupi district Mangaloreans Tulu academics University of Madras alumni Banaras Hindu University alumni University of Mysore alumni Scientists from Karnataka Tulu male writers Tulu writers Tulu people {{India-academic-bio-stub