The city in which Kannada University is based is recognised as what under the name of "Group of Monuments at Hampi"?
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Hampi
Hampi ("Hampe") is a historic temple town recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed as the "Group of Monuments at Hampi".
 Located in northern Karnataka, India close to the Andhra Pradesh border and near the city of Hosapete, Hampi was established as the capital of the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire in the 14th-century.
 Chronicles left by Persian and European travelers particularly the Portuguese state Hampi as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city near the Tungabhadra river with numerous temples, farms and trading markets.
 The Vijayanagara Empire was defeated by a coalition of Muslim Sultanates, its capital Hampi was conquered, pillaged and badly damaged by Sultanate armies in 1565, after which Hampi remained in ruins.
M. M. Kalburgi
Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi (28 November 1938 – 30 August 2015) was an Indian scholar of Vachana sahitya (Vachana literature) and academic who served as the vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi.
 A noted epigraphist of Kannada, he was awarded the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for "Marga 4", a collection of his research articles.
Rahamat Tarikere
Rahamat Tarikere (born 26 August 1959) is a Kannada critic.
 Currently he is a Professor in Kannada University at Hampi.
 He is well known for his sharp insights and celebrated for his critical view on culture.
 He is one of the most noted writer of the new generation of writers in Kannada. Architecture of Karnataka
The antiquity of Architecture of Karnataka(Kannada: ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪ ) can be traced to its southern Neolithic and early Iron Age, Having witnessed the architectural ideological and utilitarian transformation from shelter- ritual- religion.
 Here the nomenclature ‘Architecture’ is as old as c.2000 B.C.E.
 The upper or late Neolithic people in order to make their shelters, they constructed huts made of wattle and doab, that were buttressed by stone boulders, presumably having conical roof resting on the bamboo or wooden posts into red murram or paved granite chips as revealed in archaeological excavations in sites like Brhamagiri (Chitradurga district), Sanganakallu, Tekkalakota (Bellary district), Piklihal (Raichur district).
 Megaliths are the dominant archaeological evidence of the early Iron Age (c. 1500 B.C.E- 100 C.E unsettled date).
 There are more than 2000 early Iron Age burial sites on record, who laid the foundation for a high non perishable architecture in the form of various distinct architectural styles of stone built burials, which are ritualistic in its character.
 The active religious architecture is evident 345 with that of the Kadamba Dynasty.
 Karnataka is a state in the southern part of India originally known as the State of Mysore.
 Over the centuries, architectural monuments within the region displayed a diversity of influences, often relaying much about the artistic trends of the rulers of twelve different dynasties.
 Its architecture ranges dramatically from majestic monolith, such as the Gomateshwara, to Hindu and Jain places of worship, ruins of ancient cities, mausoleums and palaces of different architectural hue.
 Mysore Kingdom (Wodeyar) rule has also given an architectural master structure in the St. Philomena's Church at Mysore (extolled by the King as a structure of divine compassion and the eager gratitude of men) which was completed in 1956, in addition to many Dravidian style architectural temples.
 Two of the monuments (Pattadakal and Hampi) are listed under the UNESCO World Heritage List of 22 cultural monuments in India.
 Styles of Indo-Saracenic, Renaissance, Corinthian, Hindu, Indo-Greek and Indo-British style palaces were built in Mysore, the city of palaces.
 Sikh architecture at Bidar (1512) and also in Bangalore in 1956 can also be cited as having an impact on the architectural composition of the state. K. Puttaswamy (scholar)
Dr K Puttaswamy is a Kannada writer, film critic, translator and an environmentalist.
 He hails from Varagerahalli in Ramanagar district.
 He is currently serving as an Assistant Director in Kannada Development Authority.
 He is known for his translation of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” to Kannada.
 He served as the Head of the Department of History of Sciences in Hampi Kannada University.
 His major areas of interest are Kannada language, literature, science and films. Vijayanagara architecture
Vijayanagara architecture (Kannada: ವಿಜಯನಗರ ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪ ) of 1336-1565CE was a notable building idiom that developed during the rule of the imperial Hindu Vijayanagar Empire.
 The empire ruled South India, from their regal capital at Vijayanagara, on the banks of the Tungabhadra River in modern Karnataka, India.
 The empire built temples, monuments, palaces and other structures across South India, with a largest concentration in its capital.
 The monuments in and around Hampi, in the Vijayanagara principality, are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. M. Chidananda Murthy
M. Chidananda Murthy (Kannada: ಚಿದಾನಂದ ಮೂರ್ತಿ ) (born 10 May 1931) is a Kannada writer, researcher and historian.
 He is a well-known scholar in Karnataka specializing in the history of Kannada language and ancient Karnataka.
 He is also known for his campaign to conserve the monuments Hampi and to secure classical language status to Kannada Language.
 Murthy has also articulated that uniform civil code and an anti-conversion law must be enacted by the Government in India. Kannada University
Kannada University, also called as Hampi Kannada University or Hampi University, Kannada University, Hampi is a research oriented Public University in Hampi, Karnataka, founded in 1991 by the Government of Karnataka through Kannada University Act, 1991, with the aim to develop the Kannada language and to promote the literature, traditions, culture, and folklore of Karnataka. Chandrashekhara Kambara
Chandrashekhara Kambara (born 2 January 1937) is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi.
 He is known for effective adaptation of the North Karnataka dialect of the Kannada language in his plays, and poems, in a similar style as in the works of D.R. Bendre. K. V. Narayana
Kampalapura Veeranna Narayana, also known as KVN, is a linguist, professor of Kannada language and literature, and a literary critic.
 He is currently the Chairman of the Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi Pradikara, Government of Karnataka.
 He hails from Piriyapattana in Mysore district.
 During his time as a professor in Bangalore University, he initiated investigations into Kannada language and culture from the root level.
 He served as the registrar of Hampi Kannada University.
 His major areas of interest are Kannada language, literature, teaching and science.