Dr Shrinivas V Padigar, eminent Kannada epigrapher and historian, has been chosen for the V Venkayya Epigraphy Award for 2025.
On Saturday, July 26, Dr Padigar will receive the award from Dr T S Ravishankar, director – epigraphy (retd), Archaeological Survey of India, Mysuru. The event is at Arkay Convention Centre, Mylapore, 6 p.m. onwards
Dr Padigar will also deliver the award lecture on “Beyond the Texts: Insights from Early Chalukya Inscriptions”.
This one-of-a-kind award was instituted by Sunitha Madhavan, great-granddaughter of V Venkayya. The award commemorates Rao Bahadur V. Venkayya, a pioneering epigrapher who was the first Indian Chief Epigraphist to the Government of India.
The annual V Venkayya Epigraphy Award aims to recognise exceptional individual contributions, in any Indian language, towards the discovery of unrecorded inscriptions, interpretation of inscriptions from a refreshingly new perspective, dissemination of wealth of knowledge contained in them by conventional as well as digital medium and preservation of epigraphic resources for posterity.
