Nidhin Olikara

Nidhin Olikara

23 JULY | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

JYOTHI HALL, Southern Star, Mysuru

Born into an Army family Nidhin Olikara has lived in different parts of India. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a bachelor’s and Master of Arts in History. He is currently settled in Shivamogga, Karnataka, where along with managing his own business, he continues to research and write on the history of Mysore under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan, a subject that has interested him since the late 1990s. A good portion of his work is online on his blog site which goes under the name – “The Seringapatam Times”.  Another area of focus of his research is to identify and document the fast-vanishing information as well as artifacts attesting to South India’s and the Deccan’s vast military heritage – its edged arms and armour.

He has had his work featured and contributed articles to several prominent newspapers and magazines such as Frontline, Deccan Herald, Business Line, and Bangalore Mirror among others, and published research papers in several journals around the world. His latest paper on the medals of Mysore will be published in the coming year in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. He has collaborated with several Indian and foreign researchers about Indian Arms with information on weapon typology as well as deciphering inscriptions on them and assisted in cataloguing the arms collections in the Shivamogga and Bengaluru Government museums. He has also spoken on this subject to scholarly gatherings in India and abroad including talks at the Bangalore International Centre, National Institute of Advanced Studies, and at the Tower of England to members of the Arms and Armour Society, UK. His articles have appeared in the Kannada press several times and he has been interviewed as an expert by the press and visual media on several occasions.