Archaeology of Hampi-Vijayanagara, , K M Suresh, , C.T.M. Kotraiah, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 9788180902116

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Archaeology of Hampi-Vijayanagara

K M Suresh (Editor) C.T.M. Kotraiah (Author)

Synopsis This volume consists of Forty-one research papers penned by Shri C.T.M. Kotraiah, Archeologist, while he was in the service of that august organization, The Archeological Survey of India and even after retirement, in the year 1985. All of them are based on his thorough and thoughtful investigations into the archeological remains spread in that vast but rich site of Hampi-Vijayanagara. All of them were got published by him from time to time in different journals, periodicals, books felicitation volumes etc. And they are reproduced here in one volume thereby making hem easily accessible to the interested scholars. Particularly, the articles pertaining to sculptures are unique ones since they are explained authentically quoting from the contemporary Kannada literary works which otherwise are not manageable to the non-Kannada scholars. Further much talked of the glorious achievements of the Vijayanagara empire was mainly due to economic prosperity which in turn depended on agricultural prosperity supported by intensive and extensive irrigation systems adopted and practiced during the period. And the same is dealt in nine papers, but authentically as usual. Another one is the conjectural picture of a museum patronized by the royal house specially.

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About the authors

K M Suresh

Dr. K.M. Suresh (B. 1952) presently working as Director (Museum) in the Kannada University, Hampi, Vidyaranya-583276, in Karnataka, obtained his Master's Degree from Karnataka University, Dharwar in 1974 and P.G. Diploma in Archaeology, from Institute of Achaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. In 1986. He obtained Ph.D., Degree from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, in 1992 on 'Sculptural Art of Hampi-Vijayanagara'. Since his inception in the Arachaeological Survey of India from 1976 to 1996, he served in various capacities in the Archaeological Museum at Bijapur, Hampi, Aihole and Badami in Karnataka and Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh. He has been active field worker and excavator in the Excavation Branch IV or Archaeological Survey of India, Bhubneswar in Orissa. Dr. Suresh's other works are Sculptural art of Hampi-Vijayanagara; Saivite Sculptures of Khajuraho; Iconography of Vishnu from Khajuraho; Kandariya Mahadeva temple at Khajuraho; Karnataka Devalaya Kosha: Bellary District; Karnataka Devalaya Kosha: Koppal District; Hemakuta: Recent Researches in Archaeology and Museology (Shri C.T.M. Kotraiah's Felicitation Volume). Forthcoming works are Temples of Karnataka (Ground Plans and Elevation); Forts of Vijayanagara; Panchatantra; Facet Researched in Archaeology, (Dr. C.S. Patil's Commemoration Volume). He has contri-buted several research papers for leading Journals and Felicitation Volumes. He is member for many academic societies and a guide to Ph.D., scholars in the Kannada University, Hampi.

C.T.M. Kotraiah

C.T.M. Kotraiah has worked both as an archaeologist and museum director with the Archaeological Surey of India in Karnataka. He has now retired to Mysore. Among his many publications on the Vijayanagara period is the acclaimed Irrigation Systems Under Vijayanagara Empire (Directorate of Vijayanagara Empire (Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, Mysore, 1995). He maintains an interest in Kannada literature of the Vijayanagara era.

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