Shadakshari Settar
Shadakshari Settar was an Indian professor and scholar who had conducted research in the fields of Indian archaeology, art-history, history of religions and philosophy as well as classical literature.
Early life and education
Settar studied in Mysuru, Dharawad, and Cambridge University.Career
- Professor of History and Archaeology, Karnataka University in Dharwad
- Director, of the National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology.
- President, Indian Council of Historical Research.
- Dr S Radhakrishnan Chair at the NIAS, Bengaluru, India, later became Professor Emeritus.
- Honorary Director of the Southern Centre of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
- Visiting professor at various foreign universities including at Cambridge, Harvard, Heidelberg, Athens, Leiden.
Works
Works under Settar's personal authorship comprise four volumes on history of art, two on religion and philosophy, one on human civilization and four on historiography.Books (In Kannada)
- shravanabelagola
- Savige ahvana
- Shangam Tamilagam Mattu kannada Nadunudi
- somanathapura
- Badami chalukyara shasana sahithya
- Savannu arasi
- Haalagannada: Lipi, Lipikara and Lipi Vyavasaya)ಹಳಗನ್ನಡ- ಲಿಪಿ, ಲಿಪಿಕಾರ, ಲಿಪಿ ವ್ಯವಸಾಯ
- Halagannada Bhashe bhasha vikasa bhasha bandavya
- Prakrutha jagadvalaya
- Ruvari
Books (English)
- Hoysala Sculpture in the National Museum, Copenhagen
- Sravana Belagola - An illustrated study, Dharwad
- Inviting Death, Historical Experiment on Sepulchar Hill, Dharwad
- Inviting Death: Indian Attitude Towards the Ritual Death
- Pursuing Death: Philosophy and Practice of Voluntary Termination of Life, Dharwad
- Hampi - A Medieval Metropolis, Bangalore
- Hoysala temples, Vol I, II, Bangalore
- Footprints of Artisans in History, Mysore
- Somanathapura, Bangalore
- Akssarameru's Kaliyuga Vipartan, Bangalore
Edited volumes
- Archaeological Survey of Mysore: Annual Reports, Vol II-IV, Dharwad
- Memorial Stones: A Study of the origin, significance and variety, Dharwad-Heidelberg
- Indian Archaeology in Retrospect, Vol I-IV, New Delhi
- Construction of Indian Railways, Vol I-III, New Delhi
- Jalianwala Bagh massacre, New Delhi
- Pangs of Partition, Vol I-II, New Delhi