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Nationality
  
Indian

Name
  
P. Bhat


Role
  
Teacher

Died
  
1978

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Born
  
1924
Paduru, Udupi district, Karnataka

Occupation
  
Historian, Academician, Professor, Author

Education
  
Banaras Hindu University, University of Madras

Paduru Gururaja Bhat (1924–1978) was a teacher, historian and archaeologist of Tulu Nadu and of Barkur, the ancient capital of the Tulu kingdom.

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P. Gururaja Bhat Dr Paduru Gururaja Bhat Dr P Gururaja Bhat Memorial Award 2010

Career

P. Gururaja Bhat Dr P Gururaja Bhat Award for Prof AV Narasimha Murthy Star

Born in 1924 in the village of Paduru in Karnataka's Udupi district, Bhat graduated from the University of Madras in 1952. He received a Master's degree in History from the Banaras Hindu University in 1956 and a PhD from the University of Mysore 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 the The Milagres College, Kallianpur, from 1967 to 1976.

Books

  • Tulunadu
  • Antiquities of South Kanara (1969), Prabhakara Press.
  • Tulunadina Nagamandala (1977), Kannada language.
  • Studies in Tuluva history and culture: From the pre-historic times upto [sic] the 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

    • 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

    P. Gururaja Bhat Wikipedia
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