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| name = [[Rao Bahadur]]<br />Conjeevaram Hayavadana Rao <br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1865|07|10}} <br />
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|birth_place = [[Hosur]], [[Salem District]], [[British India]] <br />
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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1946|01|27|1865|07|10}} <br />
| death_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Mysore kingdom]] <br />
| occupation = [[Historian]], [[anthropologist]], [[economist]]<br />
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[[Rao Bahadur]] '''Conjeevaram Hayavadana Rao''' (10 July 1865 – 27 January 1946) was an Indian [[historian]], [[museologist]], [[anthropologist]], [[economist]] and [[polyglot]]. He was a member of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute]], Indian Historical Records Commission and a fellow of the Royal Society of Economics.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Hayavadana Rao was born on 10 July 1865 in the town of [[Hosur]] in the then [[Salem district]] of [[Madras Presidency]] in a [[Kannada]]-speaking [[Madhwa Brahmin|Deshastha Madhwa Brahmin]] family.<ref name="mythicsocietyp94">{{cite journal|title=The quarterly journal of the Mythic society (Bangalore)|page=94|volume=56|publisher=Mythic Society|year=1966}}</ref> After graduating in history, Rao studied law and economics and joined the Government Museum, Madras as a curator. Rao worked as a curator till his retirement and compiled "The Indian Biographical Dictionary". Rao was a polyglot and was fluent in English, [[Latin]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], [[Kannada]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and [[Sanskrit]].<br />
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== Mysore Kingdom ==<br />
In 1924, Rao was appointed the head of a committee formed to revise the ''Mysore Gazetteer'' written by [[B. L. Rice]]. The revised version comprising seven volumes was published in 1927. Rao followed this with a three-volume ''History of Mysore (1399-1799)'' chronicling the [[Wodeyar Dynasty]].<br />
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== Later life and death ==<br />
Rao died on 27 January 1946 in [[Bangalore]].<ref name="orientaljournalp82">{{cite journal|title=The journal of Oriental research|volume=15-28|place=Madras|year=1946}}</ref><br />
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== Works ==<br />
* {{cite book|title=New Indian tales: nineteen amusing and instructive tales|year=1910|publisher=[[G. A. Natesan]]|first=C. Hayavadana|last=Rao}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=[[s:The Indian Biographical Dictionary|The Indian Biographical Dictionary]]|first=C. Hayavadana|last=Rao|year=1915}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Indian caste system: A study|first=C. Hayavadana|last=Rao|year=1931}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=The Dasara in Mysore: Its Origin and Significance|first=C. Hayavadana|last=Rao|year=1936}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=History of Mysore (1399-1799 A.D.)|first=C. Hayavadana|last=Rao|year=1948|publisher=Government Press}}<br />
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* {{cite web|title=HAYAVADANA RAO C., 1865-1946|publisher=classicalkannada.org|url=http://www.classicalkannada.org/DataBase/KannwordHTMLS/CLASSICAL%20KANNADA%20SCHOLARS%20HTML/HAYAVADANA%20RAO%20C%20HTML.htm|access-date=15 August 2011|archive-date=30 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330191746/http://www.classicalkannada.org/DataBase/KannwordHTMLS/CLASSICAL%20KANNADA%20SCHOLARS%20HTML/HAYAVADANA%20RAO%20C%20HTML.htm|url-status=dead}}<br />
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