Shadakshari Settar

Early life and education

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

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

  Awards