S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar

S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar

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S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar Profile

  • Name:
  • S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar
  • Born:
  • April 15, 1871
  • Died:
  • November 26, 1946

S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar Biography

Diwan Bahadur Sakkottai Krishnaswamy Aiyangar, best known as S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar was a historian, academician and Dravidologist (who study about Dravadian culture) who lived in Madras Presidency in British India. He served as the chairman of Department of Indian History and Archaeology at the University of Madras from 1914 to 1929. He was an Academician, professor and renowned author too. His historical methodology is considered to be Indian nationalistic. He was an elected member of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1908 and was conferred a "Diwan Bahadur" title in 1928. He was awarded an honorary PhD by the University of Calcutta.

 

S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar was born in a village near Kumbakonam in 1871. Sakkottai was his native village. He lost his father at the age of 11. He educated from Madras and graduated in History and worked as a lecturer in Bangalore from 1899 to 1909. He became the Head of the Department of Indian History and Archaeology at the University of Madras in 1914 and served in this position till 1929. As a history, he introduced new methods to interpret the history of Vijayanagar, for which he is famous for.

 

Aiyangar took over a struggling periodical called Journal of Indian History, during his stint with Indian History and Archaeology department. Though he faced a few financial troubles, he persuaded University of Kerala to take over the magazine and thus saved it. By that time, it became one of the world class history magazines because of the efforts of Aiyangar. In the 1920s he studied in detail the history of Vijayanagar and published a series of books based on this city’s history. He passed away in Chennai on 26 November 1946 aged 75.

 

Published: January 17, 2019

Updated: January 17, 2019

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