Kameswara Temple at Gallavalli

Dr. M. Krishna Kumari took her B.A. and degree in first class, and was awarded Ph.D. degree in 1979 by the Andhra University. She specializes in epigraphy, art and architecture of the temples of the Andhra region. She has been teaching since 1974, and is now a Reader in the Department of History & Archaeology in Andhra University. Besides publishing more than thirty research papers in leading academic journals, she had brought out a book on the rule of the Chalukya-Cholas in Andhradesa. Dr. Krishna Kumari is now the Direcetor of the research project, "Pancharamas in Medieval Andhradesa" under the UGC Career Awards Scheme.