Education
Settar studied in Mysuru, Dharawad, and Cambridge University.
Settar studied in Mysuru, Dharawad, and Cambridge University.
Professor of History and Archaeology, Karnataka University in Dharwad (1960s)
Director, of the National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology (1978). President, Indiana Council of Historical Research (1996). Doctor South Radhakrishnan Chair at the NIAS (2002-2010), Bengaluru, India, later became Professor Emeritus.
Honorary Director of the Southern Centre of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (2005).
Visiting professor at various foreign universities including at Cambridge, Harvard, Heidelberg, Athens, Leiden.