Rajan Gurukkal - Revision history

CleanupBot II: Removed empty portal template using script

2023-08-13T23:53:33Z

Removed empty portal template using script

← Older revision		Revision as of 05:23, 14 August 2023
Line 85:		Line 85:

	{{Authority control}}		{{Authority control}}
	~~{{Portal bar\|Biography\|India\|Literature\|History\|Society\|Education}}~~

	{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurukkal, Rajan}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurukkal, Rajan}}

UpdateBot: robot: Update article (please report if you notice any mistake or error in this edit)

2022-04-24T19:17:05Z

robot: Update article (please report if you notice any mistake or error in this edit)

← Older revision		Revision as of 00:47, 25 April 2022
Line 13:		Line 13:
	'''Rajan Gurukkal''' (born 16 May 1948) is a leading Indian [[social scientist]],<ref name="rclis.org">{{cite web\|url=http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/11861?mode=simple&submit_simple=Show+simple+item+record#.UBupZWHdmCw\|title=History beyond the discipline : Abstracts & bibliographical analysis of the works of Prof. Rajan Gurukkal\|publisher=E-Lis.Org\|date=\|accessdate=3 August 2012}}</ref> historian, professor and writer.<ref name="mgu.ac.in">{{cite web\|url=http://www.mgu.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=527\|title=Vice-Chancellor\|publisher=Mahatma Gandhi University.ac.in\|date=\|accessdate=3 August 2012\|archive-date=15 September 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915105824/http://mgu.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=527\|url-status=live}}</ref> He has written many books and articles on different topics.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> He has also received awards for his works.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>		'''Rajan Gurukkal''' (born 16 May 1948) is a leading Indian [[social scientist]],<ref name="rclis.org">{{cite web\|url=http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/11861?mode=simple&submit_simple=Show+simple+item+record#.UBupZWHdmCw\|title=History beyond the discipline : Abstracts & bibliographical analysis of the works of Prof. Rajan Gurukkal\|publisher=E-Lis.Org\|date=\|accessdate=3 August 2012}}</ref> historian, professor and writer.<ref name="mgu.ac.in">{{cite web\|url=http://www.mgu.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=527\|title=Vice-Chancellor\|publisher=Mahatma Gandhi University.ac.in\|date=\|accessdate=3 August 2012\|archive-date=15 September 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915105824/http://mgu.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=527\|url-status=live}}</ref> He has written many books and articles on different topics.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> He has also received awards for his works.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>

	Gurukkal is generally considered as left-of-centre historian by political analysts.<ref>{{Cite ~~web~~\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/kerala/story/19981130-ichr-member-lashes-out-at-panel-of-editors-chosen-to-write-cultural-history-of-kerala-827455-1998-11-30\|title=ICHR member lashes out at panel of editors chosen to write cultural history of Kerala\|~~last=30 November\|first~~=M. G. Radhakrishnan\|~~last2~~=November 30~~\|first2=~~1998 ~~ISSUE DATE~~\|~~website~~=India Today\|language=en\|access-date=2019-03-01~~\|last3=April 11\|first3=1998UPDATED\|last4=Ist\|first4=2013 12:38~~\|archive-date=1 March 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301201612/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/kerala/story/19981130-ichr-member-lashes-out-at-panel-of-editors-chosen-to-write-cultural-history-of-kerala-827455-1998-11-30\|url-status=live}}</ref>		Gurukkal is generally considered as left-of-centre historian by political analysts.<ref>{{Cite magazine\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/kerala/story/19981130-ichr-member-lashes-out-at-panel-of-editors-chosen-to-write-cultural-history-of-kerala-827455-1998-11-30\|title=ICHR member lashes out at panel of editors chosen to write cultural history of Kerala\|author=M. G. Radhakrishnan \|date=November 30, 1998 \|magazine=India Today\|language=en\|access-date=2019-03-01\|archive-date=1 March 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301201612/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/kerala/story/19981130-ichr-member-lashes-out-at-panel-of-editors-chosen-to-write-cultural-history-of-kerala-827455-1998-11-30\|url-status=live}}</ref>

	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Puthen Madathil Rajan Gurukkal was born on 15 May 1948 in a northern [[Kerala]] village called [[Kariyad]] near Mahe in the [[Kannur District]] of India.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> He did his schooling first in his family school at [[Kuruvattur]] in the [[Kozhikode District]], and subsequently in Kariyad Nambiar's Upper Primary School and Ramavilasam Secondary School. Joined [[Government College, Madappally]] and [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery]] for his graduation. He received a postgraduate degree in history from the [[University of Calicut]] in 1972, with first class and first rank from the University, after which he took up teaching at the [[Union Christian College, Aluva\|Union Christian College]] at [[Aluva]] in Kerala.<ref name="UC College Department of History">{{cite web\|url=http://uccollege.edu.in/history/about/\|title=UC College Department of History\|publisher=uccollege.edu.in\|accessdate=8 December 2013\|archive-date=11 December 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211091457/http://uccollege.edu.in/history/about/\|url-status=live}}</ref> Later he completed his [[MPhil]] in 1978 and PhD in 1985 in historical socio-economics from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi\|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> Then became a faculty of Centre for Historical Studies, JNU		Puthen Madathil Rajan Gurukkal was born on 15 May 1948 in a northern [[Kerala]] village called [[Kariyad]] near Mahe in the [[Kannur District]] of India.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> He did his schooling first in his family school at [[Kuruvattur]] in the [[Kozhikode District]], and subsequently in Kariyad Nambiar's Upper Primary School and Ramavilasam Secondary School. Joined [[Government College, Madappally]] and [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery]] for his graduation. He received a postgraduate degree in history from the [[University of Calicut]] in 1972, with first class and first rank from the University, after which he took up teaching at the [[Union Christian College, Aluva\|Union Christian College]] at [[Aluva]] in Kerala.<ref name="UC College Department of History">{{cite web\|url=http://uccollege.edu.in/history/about/\|title=UC College Department of History\|publisher=uccollege.edu.in\|accessdate=8 December 2013\|archive-date=11 December 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211091457/http://uccollege.edu.in/history/about/\|url-status=live}}</ref> Later he completed his [[MPhil]] in 1978 and PhD in 1985 in historical socio-economics from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi\|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> Then became a faculty of Centre for Historical Studies, JNU

	He was a visiting faculty briefly at Humboldt University(1987) and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris (2006) and lectured at several Universities in the country as well as abroad such as Humboldt, Leipzig, Berlin, Heidelberg, ~~Tubingen~~ and Ruhr (Germany); EHESS, Paris; and		He was a visiting faculty briefly at Humboldt University(1987) and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris (2006) and lectured at several Universities in the country as well as abroad such as Humboldt, Leipzig, Berlin, Heidelberg, Tübingen and Ruhr (Germany); EHESS, Paris; and
	CIRAD, Montpellier (France); Toronto and Kingston (Canada); Manchester, Glasgow, Reading, ~~Westminister~~ and SOAS (UK); Shanghai (China); Tokyo, Taisho		CIRAD, Montpellier (France); Toronto and Kingston (Canada); Manchester, Glasgow, Reading, Westminster and SOAS (UK); Shanghai (China); Tokyo, Taisho
	and Toyo Bunko (Japan); Central European University, Budapest (Hungary). He has worked on different and several important posts such as the dean of faculty, member of the academic council, senate and syndicate of a few universities and social science research institutes and others. Former [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala\|Mahatma Gandhi University]], [[Kottayam]], India.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/><ref name="hindu.com">{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/13/stories/2008111354050400.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215111817/http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/13/stories/2008111354050400.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=15 December 2013\|title=Rajan Gurukkal is new VC of MGU\|date=13 November 2008\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|accessdate=3 August 2012}}</ref> He was Sundararajan Visiting Professor at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, [[Indian Institute of Science]], Bangalore during 2012-2016. <ref name=CCS-IISc>{{cite web\|title=Centre for Contemporary Studies\|url=http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/\|publisher=CCS-IISc\|accessdate=9 December 2013\|archive-date=5 July 2011\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705145945/http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/\|url-status=live}}</ref>		and Toyo Bunko (Japan); Central European University, Budapest (Hungary). He has worked on different and several important posts such as the dean of faculty, member of the academic council, senate and syndicate of a few universities and social science research institutes and others. Former [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala\|Mahatma Gandhi University]], [[Kottayam]], India.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/><ref name="hindu.com">{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/13/stories/2008111354050400.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215111817/http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/13/stories/2008111354050400.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=15 December 2013\|title=Rajan Gurukkal is new VC of MGU\|date=13 November 2008\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|accessdate=3 August 2012}}</ref> He was Sundararajan Visiting Professor at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, [[Indian Institute of Science]], Bangalore during 2012-2016. <ref name=CCS-IISc>{{cite web\|title=Centre for Contemporary Studies\|url=http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/\|publisher=CCS-IISc\|accessdate=9 December 2013\|archive-date=5 July 2011\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705145945/http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
	He currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council.		He currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council.
Line 85:		Line 85:

	{{Authority control}}		{{Authority control}}
			{{Portal bar\|Biography\|India\|Literature\|History\|Society\|Education}}

	{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurukkal, Rajan}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurukkal, Rajan}}

Rahulsoman: minor corrections

2021-09-29T20:15:34Z

minor corrections

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rajan Gurukkal
| image = Rajan Gurukkal (cropped).jpg
| image_size =
| image caption = Prof. Rajan Gurukkal speaking at an event in 2007
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|5|15|df=y}}, [[Kariyad]], [[Kannur]]
|alma mater = [[University of Calicut]] [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]]
| occupation = Vice-Chairman Kerala State Higher Education council 
[[Historian]] [[Vice chancellor]] Professor Writer
}}

'''Rajan Gurukkal''' (born 16 May 1948) is a leading Indian [[social scientist]],<ref name="rclis.org">{{cite web|url=http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/11861?mode=simple&submit_simple=Show+simple+item+record#.UBupZWHdmCw|title=History beyond the discipline : Abstracts & bibliographical analysis of the works of Prof. Rajan Gurukkal|publisher=E-Lis.Org|date=|accessdate=3 August 2012}}</ref> historian, professor and writer.<ref name="mgu.ac.in">{{cite web|url=http://www.mgu.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=527|title=Vice-Chancellor|publisher=Mahatma Gandhi University.ac.in|date=|accessdate=3 August 2012|archive-date=15 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915105824/http://mgu.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=527|url-status=live}}</ref> He has written many books and articles on different topics.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> He has also received awards for his works.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>

Gurukkal is generally considered as left-of-centre historian by political analysts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/kerala/story/19981130-ichr-member-lashes-out-at-panel-of-editors-chosen-to-write-cultural-history-of-kerala-827455-1998-11-30|title=ICHR member lashes out at panel of editors chosen to write cultural history of Kerala|last=30 November|first=M. G. Radhakrishnan|last2=November 30|first2=1998 ISSUE DATE|website=India Today|language=en|access-date=2019-03-01|last3=April 11|first3=1998UPDATED|last4=Ist|first4=2013 12:38|archive-date=1 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301201612/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/kerala/story/19981130-ichr-member-lashes-out-at-panel-of-editors-chosen-to-write-cultural-history-of-kerala-827455-1998-11-30|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Biography==
Puthen Madathil Rajan Gurukkal was born on 15 May 1948 in a northern [[Kerala]] village called [[Kariyad]] near Mahe in the [[Kannur District]] of India.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> He did his schooling first in his family school at [[Kuruvattur]] in the [[Kozhikode District]], and subsequently in Kariyad Nambiar's Upper Primary School and Ramavilasam Secondary School. Joined [[Government College, Madappally]] and [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery]] for his graduation. He received a postgraduate degree in history from the [[University of Calicut]] in 1972, with first class and first rank from the University, after which he took up teaching at the [[Union Christian College, Aluva|Union Christian College]] at [[Aluva]] in Kerala.<ref name="UC College Department of History">{{cite web|url=http://uccollege.edu.in/history/about/|title=UC College Department of History|publisher=uccollege.edu.in|accessdate=8 December 2013|archive-date=11 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211091457/http://uccollege.edu.in/history/about/|url-status=live}}</ref> Later he completed his [[MPhil]] in 1978 and PhD in 1985 in historical socio-economics from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/> Then became a faculty of Centre for Historical Studies, JNU

He was a visiting faculty briefly at Humboldt University(1987) and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris (2006) and lectured at several Universities in the country as well as abroad such as Humboldt, Leipzig, Berlin, Heidelberg, Tubingen and Ruhr (Germany); EHESS, Paris; and
CIRAD, Montpellier (France); Toronto and Kingston (Canada); Manchester, Glasgow, Reading, Westminister and SOAS (UK); Shanghai (China); Tokyo, Taisho
and Toyo Bunko (Japan); Central European University, Budapest (Hungary). He has worked on different and several important posts such as the dean of faculty, member of the academic council, senate and syndicate of a few universities and social science research institutes and others. Former [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala|Mahatma Gandhi University]], [[Kottayam]], India.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/><ref name="hindu.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/13/stories/2008111354050400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215111817/http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/13/stories/2008111354050400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 December 2013|title=Rajan Gurukkal is new VC of MGU|date=13 November 2008|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=3 August 2012}}</ref> He was Sundararajan Visiting Professor at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, [[Indian Institute of Science]], Bangalore during 2012-2016. <ref name=CCS-IISc>{{cite web|title=Centre for Contemporary Studies|url=http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/|publisher=CCS-IISc|accessdate=9 December 2013|archive-date=5 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705145945/http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/|url-status=live}}</ref>
He currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council.

==Career==
Gurukkal began his career as a junior lecturer at Union Christian College, Aluva in 1972 as soon as he finished his postgraduation.<ref name="UC College Department of History"/> After completing his doctoral education, he joined as the teaching faculty at the Centre for Historical Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University for some time before taking up the chair of Professor and Director, School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala in 1988.<ref name="Gurukkal as MGU VC">{{cite web|title=Rajan Gurukkal to take over as MGU VC on Monday|url=http://newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/article4594.ece|publisher=The New Indian Express|accessdate=8 December 2013|archive-date=18 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218111228/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/article4594.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> He took up the position at Mahatma Gandhi University upon the invitation of noted Kannada writer and the then University Vice-Chancellor [[U. R. Ananthamurthy]].{{fact|date=March 2021}}

===Literary career===
He has written five books in [[Malayalam]] and six books in English, on the topic of Socio-economic, cultural history of [[Kerala]], structural anthropology, historical sociology, and human ecology of the Southern Western Ghats. He has about 150 research articles in the national and international Journals besides many articles in various magazines and newspapers on current issues.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>

==Awards==

* ''Teacher Fellowship''. Indian Council of Historical Research. 1977<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''National Teacher Fellowship''. University Grants Commission. 1980<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Oravakkal Mathen Memorial Best Academician Award''. 1986<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* Braj Dev Prasad Memorial Prize for the best book on ancient Indian history, Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade, OUP (2016)

==Select Bibliography==

* ''Aryanisation of South India'' Dravidian Encyclopaedia, Trivandrum, 1983<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''From the Royalty of Icons to the Divinity of Royalty: Aspects of Vaisnava Icons and Kingship in South India'' in R. Parimoo ed. Vaisnavism and Indian Art, Baroda, 1984.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''State and Society in South India 200 B.C to 300 A.D'', History of India: Earliest Times to 800 A.D Indira Gandhi Open University. New Delhi. 1990.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Early Social Formation of South India and Its Transitional Processes'', in H.V. Sreenivasa Murthy, B. Surendra Rao, Kesavan Veluthat and S.A.Bari eds.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Formation of Caste Society in Kerala'' : Historical Antecedents in K.L.Sharma ed. Caste and Class in Indian States, Delhi, 1994<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Towards a New Discourse'': Discursive Processes in Early South India, in R. Champakalakshmi and S. Gopal (Eds.) <ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Ideology, Essays in Honour of [[Romila Thapar]]'', New Delhi, 1996.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Recent Historiographic Dimensions on Early South Indian Socio-economics'', in K.K.N.Kurup ed. New Dimensions in South Indian History<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Historical Materialism and History'', in T.R. Venugopalan Ed. History and Theory, Government College Publications, Thrissur<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Social Formation in Iron Age South India'', K. Surendra Rao and Kesavan Veluthat (Eds) Sheik Ali Felicitation Volume, Mangalore 2000.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* (and about 150 research articles in various national and international journals).

'''Monographs & Books'''

* ''Levi-Strauss'' (Monograph in Malayalam), Viswadarsana publications, Trissur, 1986.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''History of Kerala'', (book in Malayalam, jointly done with Raghava Varier) Vallathol Vidyapitham, Edappal, 1991.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''The Kerala Temple and the Early Medieval Agrarian System'', Vallathol Vidyapitham, Edappal, 1992.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Myth and Society'' (book in Malayalam, jointly done with Raghava Varier, Jalakam Publishers, Perambra, [[Kozhikode]]. 1994<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Cultural History of Kerala'', vol. I. Department of Cultural Publications, Thiruvananthapuram, 1999.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Kerala Charithram'' 2 Vols (Book in Malayalam), jointly done with Raghava Varier) Vallathol Vidyapitham, 2012
* ''Forest Landscapes of the Southern Western Ghats'', India jointly edited with B. Ramesh, French Institute, Pondicherry, 2007<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Social Formations of Early South India'', OUP, 2009.<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Myth Charithram Samuham'' (book in Malayalam), SPCS, 2013
* ''Suice Trends in Kerala: Causes and Allevaiations, Monograph'', Stat Planning Board, 2010<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>
* ''Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations'', OUP 2016
* ''History and Theory of Knowledge Production: An Introductory Outline'', OUP 2018
* ''History of Kerala: Pre-historic to the Present'', jointly done with Raghava Varier, Orient Blackswan, 2018

==Projects<ref name="mgu.ac.in"/>==
* Making of Modern Kerala, UGC Major Research Project, 1999–2001.
* Ford Foundation Project on Historical Atlas of South India, in collaboration with the French Institute, Pondicherry (2006 April – 2008 April).
* Fringe Area Socioeconomic Study of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, World Bank Project (IEDP, 2002–03).
* Socio-economic Sustainability Study, Periyar Tiger Reserve, World Bank Project (IEDP, 2003).
* Sabarimala Enclave: Pilgrim Impact Assessment, Periyar Tiger Reserve, World Bank Project (IEDP, 2002–03).
* Process Documentation Research, Periyar Tiger Reserve, World Bank Project (IEDP, 2003–04)

==See also==
*[[List of Indian writers]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://archive.today/20130104020527/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-21/kochi/31378360_1_chancellor-scholars-usa Scholars come out in support of Professor Rajan Gurukkal]
* [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article3690388.ece Re-politicise society: Rajan Gurukkal]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurukkal, Rajan}}
[[Category:1948 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian social scientists]]
[[Category:Writers from Kerala]]
[[Category:University of Calicut alumni]]
[[Category:Indian Institute of Science faculty]]
[[Category:Heads of universities and colleges in India]]
[[Category:People from Kannur district]]
[[Category:Scholars from Kerala]]
[[Category:Indian social sciences writers]]
[[Category:Historians of Kerala]]