Name C. Rao | Role Historian | |
Born July 10, 1865 ( 1865-07-10 ) Hosur, Salem District, British India Occupation Historian, anthropologist, economist Died January 27, 1946, Bengaluru | ||
Rao Bahadur Conjeevaram Hayavadana Rao (10 July 1865 – 27 January 1946) was an Indian historian, museologist, anthropologist, economist and polyglot. He was a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Indian Historical Records Commission and a fellow of the Royal Society of Economics.
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Early life
Hayavadana Rao was born on July 10, 1865 in the town of Hosur in the then Salem district of Madras Presidency in a Kannada-speaking Deshastha Madhwa Brahmin 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, Latin, French, German, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Sanskrit.
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 January 27, 1946 in Bangalore. He was the editor of the Journal of Oriental Research at the time of his death. After his death, his three sons succeeded him. One of them was a dentist by the name Bangalore Ananthaswamy Rao. Some of his grandchildren / great grandchildren have kept their surnames as "Canchi" or "Cavale" .