B. A. Saletore

Bhaskar Anand Saletore
Born	1902 Saletore, Puttur taluk, South Canara
Died	1963
Occupation	Historian, Academician, Professor, Author

Bhaskar Anand Saletore (1902–1963), better known as B. A. Saletore, was a well-known Indian historian from Mangalore, Karnataka.

B.A. Saletore was born in village named Saletore in the Puttur taluk of South Canara district (present Dakshina Kannada district) . He did his early schooling in Mangalore. He did his B.T. degree from Madras and M.A. degree from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai,(then Bombay). He was educated in London University in History 1931 and also from University of Giessen, Germany in Politics 1933.

He started his career as professor of History at Sir Parshurambhau College in Pune in 1938, and later worked at University of Ahmedabad. He worked with the Bombay Educational Service he became the Director of National Archives of India, retiring in 1960. Thereafter, he started his tenure as professor, later Head of Post Graduate Department of History, and finally Director at Kannada Research institute at Karnataka University, Dharwad.

Salatore was a polyglot. His works spanning several books and hundreds of articles cover a wide range of subjects including ancient Indian history. During his early years he was guided by world-famous historians like H. Heras and L.D. Barnett. In the 1930s, he wrote a well-known book Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire, a book that includes the much debated topic of the origin of the Sangama brothers and the origin of the empire itself. This book was his PhD. thesis while at the University of London. The work contains a bibliography of 55 pages, running to thousand and odd books and articles.

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