Padoor Gururaj Bhat

Paduru Gururaja Bhat
Paduru Gururaja Bhat
Born	1924 Paduru, Udupi district, Karnataka
Died	1978
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Historian, Academician, Professor, Author

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

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.

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.