SHEIKH ALI, B
Sheikh Ali, B. (
ಬಿ. ಷೇಕ್ ಅಲಿ )
is an eminent historian from Karnataka who is
well known in his peer group for his contribution to the theory of history and its
application to the ground realities of Karnataka. He was a student of
Mysore
University
and retired from the same institution
as a professor of History. He was the Vice Chancellor of the
Goa
University
as well as the
Mangalore
University
. He was responsible for the emergence
of a number of scholars in History from the
University
of
Mysore
. His contributions to the Historical studies
of ancient Karnataka have to do with the history of
Western Gangas.
He has supported the point of view that the Gangas hailed from the
South Karnataka
and that the
early chieftains of the clan (prior to their rise to power) were natives of the
southern districts of modern Karnataka. He does not approve the fact that early
Gangas were Jains. A major share of his seminal work belongs to the period of Hyder
Ali and Tipu Sultan. He has succeeded in establishing Tipu Sultan as a secular patriot
rather than a religious zealot.
Some of his works are listed below:
- History
: Its Theory and Method, Macmillan,
New Delhi
,
- History
of the Western Gangas (Comprehensive History of Karnataka, Volume 1), 1976,
University
of
Mysore,
Mysore
.
- ‘Goa
wins freedom: Reflections and Reminiscences’, 1986,
Goa
University
.
- ‘Tipu
Sultan, A great martyr’, edited by B.Sheikh Ali, 1992, I.C.H.R.,
New Delhi
(Papers
presented at a seminar organized by the Bangalore University in collaboration with
the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, 1992.)
- ‘Tipu Sultan’, B. Sheikh Ali, National Book Trust,
New Delhi
- ‘British
relations with Hyder Ali’, (1760-1782), 1963, Rao and Raghavan
- ‘A
great teacher’, 1997, Prasaranga,
University
of
Mysore
- ‘Islam,
a cultural orientation’, 1981, Macmillan,
Delhi
.
- ‘Essays
on Indian history and culture’: felicitation volume in honor of Professor B.Sheikh
Ali, Ed. by H.V.Sreenivasa Murthy, 1990, Mittal Publications.
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