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'''Pillaipundagudi Thiruvengadattaiyangar Srinivasa Iyengar''' (1863–1931){{citation needed|date=December 2012}} was an [[India|Indian]] [[historian]], [[linguist]] and [[educationist]] who wrote books on the history of South India.<br />
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== Academic career ==<br />
[[File:PTSIyengar.jpg|thumb|P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar]]<br />
Srinivasa Iyengar served as the Principal of A. V. N. College, [[Visakhapatnam]] during the first two decades of the twentieth century.<ref name="avncollege">{{Cite web|url=http://www2.engr.mun.ca/~adluri/telugu/modern/drama/kanyasulkam/gurajada.html|title=Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao|access-date=2008-09-07|publisher=[[Memorial University of Newfoundland]]|author=Seshu Madhava Rao Adhuri}}</ref> He campaigned to bring changes in the curriculum and introduce spoken dialects. In 1909, he created a Telugu teaching Reform society in order to cultivate vernacular Telugu.<ref name="gidugu_avn">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eemaata.com/issue39/gidugu.pdf|title= Gidugu Venkata Ramamurti — Rekhachitram |access-date=2008-09-07|language=te}}</ref><ref name="avn3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.teluguworld.org/Nuggets/kanyasulkam_2.html|title=KANYASULKAM - PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION |access-date=2008-09-07|year=1909|language=te}}</ref> In 1911, Iyengar published a textbook of [[arithmetic]] called Longman's ''Arithmethikkulu'' in modern [[Telugu language|Telugu]].<ref name="memberofcommittee">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ciil-ebooks.net/html/langMove/classic.html|title=Classical or Modern - A Controversy of Styles in Education in Telugu |access-date=2008-09-07|language=te}}</ref> In April 1913, when [[Madras University]] appointed a committee to examine and advise them on the style to be adopted for the Telugu composition of the Intermediate Course which replaced the earlier F.A., Iyengar was appointed one of the ten members.<ref name="memberofcommittee" /><br />
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He was serving as Principal and Professor of [[English language|English]] at [[Rajahmundry]] Training College, when he was appointed Reader of Indian History and archaeology with fellow Indologists Dr. [[S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar]] and [[V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar]] as the sole Professor and Lecturer respectively. He probably served as Reader till his death in 1931.<ref name="universityofmadras_depthistory">{{Cite web|url=http://www.unom.ac.in/indhis.html|title=History|access-date=2008-09-07|publisher=Department of History, University of Madras|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080422192520/http://www.unom.ac.in/indhis.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2008-04-22}}</ref><br />
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== Books ==<br />
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* {{cite book | title=Outlines of Indian philosophy| url=https://archive.org/details/outlinesindianp00iyengoog| last=Iyengar| first=P. T. Srinivasa| date=1909| publisher=Theosophical Publishing House}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Iyengar| first=P. T. Srinivasa|title=Death Or Life: A Plea for the Vernaculars| date=1909}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=History of the Indian people. Life in ancient India in the age of the mantras | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofindianp00srinrich | last=Iyengar| first=P. T. Srinivasa| date=1912| publisher=Srinivasa Vadarachari & Co.}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=The Shiva-sutra-vimarsinī of Ksemaraja.| last=Kshemaraja (translated by P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar)| date=1912| publisher=Editors, Indian Thought}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=Gayathri| last=Iyengar| first=P. T. Srinivasa| date=1912| publisher=Higginbotham & Co.}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=The Stone Age in India| last=Iyengar| first=P. T. Srinivasa}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=Pre-Aryan Tamil Culture| last=Iyengar| first=P. T. Srinivasa}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=First Steps in Tamil| last= Daniel| first= S. G. |author2=P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=History of the Tamils from the Earliest Times to the Present Day| last= Iyengar| first= P. T. Srinivasa | year=1929}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=A Short History of India| last=Willatt| first=John|author2=P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar| date=1929| publisher=Oxford University Press}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=Bhoja Raja| last=Iyengar| first=P. T. Srinivasa| date=1931| publisher=Methodist Publishing House}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=Advanced History of India| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170295| last=Iyengar| first=P. T. Srinivasa| date=1942| publisher=Hindi Prachar Press}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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