[2] After completing his education in England, Rice returned to serve as the principal of Central School in Bangalore.
[2] In 1886, when the British made him the head of the Department of Archaeology, he started work towards publishing his epigraphical study and brought out a series of twelve volumes entitled Epigraphia Carnatica.
[2] Rice also wrote a book called The History of Mysore and Coorg from Inscriptions which is based on Epigraphia Carnatica.
These inscriptions belonged to different dynasties that ruled this region such as Cholas, Kadambas, Western Chalukyas, Hoysalas, Vijayanagar kings, Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, and the Mysore Wodeyars.
Krishna, after his excavations at Chandravalli and Brahmagiri, discovered 2,000 inscriptions and published these discoveries as volumes 13, 14 and 15 of Epigraphia Carnatica.
The Southern Regional Centre of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) under the chairmanship of Professor S. Settar wanted to create a digitized version of the volumes.
[1] In the preface of each volume is found a description about the publication and its contents, persons involved, and/or struggles, some of which owing to a change of staff,[4] a post-war retrenchment,[5] etc.
From 1886 to 1905 [19 years], B. Lewis Rice published the first twelve volumes in multiple parts as fourteen books, followed by a revision of Vol.
XIII as an index to his publications, so in 1934, Dr. M. H. Krishna, with the help of K. Rama Rao, M. C. Srinivasa Iyengar, and R. Narasimhachar, published part one of Vol.