Biography
Paduru Gururaja Bhat was a teacher, historian and archaeologist of Tulu Nadu and of Barkur, the ancient capital of the Tulu kingdom.
Early Life
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 Milagres College, Kallianpur, from 1967 to 1976.
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Category:20th-century Indian historians Category:Kannada-language writers Category:1924 births Category:1978 deaths Category:People from Udupi district Category:Mangaloreans Category:Tulu academics Category:University of Madras alumni Category:Banaras Hindu University alumni Category:University of Mysore alumni Category:Scientists from Karnataka Category:Tulu male writers Category:Tulu writers Category:Tulu people Category:Tulu Brahmins