SUNDARA A

SUNDARA A.

Ananta Adiga Sundara (ಅನಂತ ಅಡಿಗ. ಸುಂದರ) is tne of the leading archaeologists of Karnataka. He has served as the Professor and the Head in the Department of History and Archaeology in Karnataka University. He has participated in many excavations and worked ceaselessly for the preservation of many monuments in Karnataka, when he was the Director of the Department of Archaeology and Museums.

He has won the Karnataka Rajyotsava award in 2007.

Important Works:

1. ‘The early chamber tombs of South India : a study of the iron age megalithic monuments of North Karnataka’ 1975, University Publishers. (India)

2. ‘Neolithic Cultural Patterns and Movements in North Mysore State’, 1970, published by Deccan College Post graduate and Research Institute.

3. ‘Some Aspects of the Neolithic Sites in Malnad Area’, 1971, published by Deccan College Post graduate and Research Institute.

4. ‘Dr M.H. Krishna: his life, work and contribution to Karnataka Archaeology, (edited with others) 1985, Directorate of Archaeology and Museums.

Cultural Ecology of the Neolithic in India

5. Archaeology‘ in Karnataka: Papers Presented At The National Seminar on Archaeology’ edited by Sundara A., 1990, Directorate of Archaeology and Museums.

6. ‘Cultural Ecology of the Neolithic in India’

7. ‘The Shivappa Nayaka Palace In Shimoga’ by A.Sundara, 1987, Director of Archaeology and Museums, Govt. of Karnataka, Mysore.

8. ‘The Keladi Nayakas: Architecture and Art’, 1987, Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Govet. of Karnataka.

9. ‘Pattadakal’, 2008, Archaeologcal Survey of India.

10. ‘keLAdi arasara kAlada vAstu mattu mUrtishilpa’, 1986, Prachyavastu mattu sangrahalaya nirdeshanalaya.

11. ‘svAdi arasumanetana’, e. sundara mattu em.em. kalaburgi, 1995

12. ‘karnaTaka prAgitihAsada kAlada kale’, e. sundara mattu pi.Ar. tippEsvAmi, 1994.

13. ‘Shivamogga Jille: Darshana’, 1978, I.B.H. Prakashana, Bangalore.