| The primary objective of the Kannada Historians of the recent past is to explore disseminate and critique Kannada culture. This however does not mean any dogmatically exclusivist approach. This objective is perfectly compatible with the objective of absorbing neighboring cultures but within the framework of natiuism. Indeed this objective has been best captured by the first major scholar in Kannada language, Alur Venkatarao when he declared….. To enter and establish nativism, we need to emulate classical models which is followed by the veteran epigraphists and scholars. Shri. N. Laksmi Narayan Rao and R.S. Panchamukhi, who ought to have been the first persons, as outstanding scholars who have contributed much to the study of Karnataka History and the Chukayas of Badami in particular after the Alur Venkata Rao. |