Chairman - Prof. K N Panikkar

 

Name

Prof. K N Panikkar

Designation

Chairman

Contact Info:

Tel: 0471-2315354, Mob:9846497797

Mail-id: knpanikkar@gmail.com

 

Working in KCHR Since

June 2001

Education Summary

 M.A, Ph.D 

Professional Experience

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD
  • Professor of Modern History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi- 1983 to 2000.
  • Associate Professor, Centre for Historical studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1972 to 1983.
  • Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Hansraj College, Delhi University, 1965- 72.
  • Research officer, Indian Institute of Public Administration, 1963-65.
  • Lecturer, Department of History, Rajasthan University, 1962-63.

OTHER POSITIONS

  • Vice –Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya University, Kalady, Kerala
  • Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • Chairman, Centre for Historical Studies, New Delhi.
  • Vice-Chairman, Kerala Council for Higher Education
  • Chairman, Kerala Council for Historical Research.
  • Chairman, Archives on Contemporary History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • Visiting Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.
  • Visiting Professor, Maison de sciences l’ homme, Paris.
  • Visiting Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin.
  • Visiting Fellow, British Council, London.
  • Resident fellow, Rockfeller Study and Research Centre, Bellagio, Italy.
  • President, Modern Indian History Section, Indian History Congress, 1975.
  • Generaql President, Indian History Congress,  Sixty Nineth Session, 2008
  • Chairman, Experts Committee on History, Indira Gandhi Open University, New Delhi.
  • Chairman, Experts Committee on History, National Open School, New Delhi.
  • Chairman, History Panel, International Conference on Kerala Studies, Thiruvananthapuram,1994.
  • Chairman, Panel on Cultural Processes, International Conference on 500 years of Indo- European Relations, Calcut- Cochin, 1998.
  • Chairman, Committee for Perspective Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
  • Member, Academic Council, Indira Gandhi Open University.
  • Member, Academic Council, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
  • Member, Executive Committee, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
  • Member, Advisory Board, World Book Encyclopedia.
  • Member Advisory Panel, National Book Trust of India.
  • Member, History Panel, University Grants Commission.
  • Member, Advisory Board, School of Archival Studies, National Archives of India.
  • Member, Advisory Committee, Archives Departmrnt, Kerala Government.
  • Member, Advisory Committee, Gazetteers Department, Kerala Government.
  • Member, Task Force on Culture, Minisry of Human Resource Development.
  • Member, Board of studies, Centre for Development Studies Trivandrum.
  • Member, Board of Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.
  • Member, Board of Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
  • Member. Board of Studies, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak
  • Member, Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi.
  • Member, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi.
  • Member, Research Council, National Institute of Science and Technology, New Delhi.
  • Member, Research Council, National Institute of Educational Planners and Administrarors, New Delhi
  • Member, Executive Committee, Nagaland University
  • Visitor’s Nominee, Delhi University
  • Visitor’s Nominee to the Central University, Nagaland.
  • Visitor’s Nominee to Allahabad University, Allahabad.
  • Visitor’s Nominee, Meerut University, Meerut
  • Visitor’s Nominee, Lucknow University, Lucknow.
  • National Lecturer, University Grants Commission.
  • Director, Malayalam Translation Unit, Indian Coucil for Historical Research
  • Editor, Studies in History, A Biannual Journal Published by Sage India.
  • Editor, Towards Freedom Project, Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi.
  • Consultant, National Institute of Educational Planners and Administrators, New Delhi.
  • Chairman, Review Committee, Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Social Sciences, Chennai.
  • Chairman, UGC Review Committee, Shanti Niketan,2008
  • Member, UGC Committee on Reforming Affiliating System, 2008
  • Chairman, Expert Committee for Reviewing Social Science Text Book. Kerala, 2008
  • Chairman, Academic Committee, International Conference on Education, Thiruvananthapuram, 2008,
  • Member, Academic Advisory Council, IIT, Ahmadabad

Professional Milestones/ Achievements

  • Prof. Sudhakaran Memorial Award.
  • Nilakkal Award for Communal Harmony
  • Muslim Education Society Award for Excellence
  • Thekkurissi Memorial Award
  • Muzaffar Ahamad Memorial Award.
  • Subramanya Shenoy Memorial Award for Public service
  • T.K.Ramakrishnan Memorial Award
  • Dubai Arts Lovers Association Award
  • Kerala Government Granthasala Award  
  • Joseph Mundasseri Memorial Award
  • P.Govinda Pillai Memrial Award.
  • A.T.Kovur Memorial Award

Distinguished Lectures

  • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Memorial Lecture, Bombay University.
  • Alam Kundumiri Memorial Lecture, Hyderabad.
  • V.P.Chindan Memorial Lecture, Madras.
  • Safdar Hashmi Memorial Lecture, New Delhi
  • M. Govindan Memorial Lecture, Kottayam.
  •  Ragotham Memorial Lecture, Banglore.
  • V.P.S. Raghuvanshi Memorial Lecture, Jaipur.
  • Sundarayya Memorial Lecture, Hyderabad.
  • Father Heras Memorial Lecture, Bombay.
  • Muktar Ahmad Ansari Memorial Lecture, Jamia Milia, New Delhi
  • Antaral Lecture, Kendra Sahitya Academy, New Delhi
  • Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai Memorial Lecture, Kerala University, Thiruvanatapuram
  • G. Sankara Pillai Memorial Lecture, M.G. University, Kottayam
  • K.P. Jayaswal Memorial Lecture, Patna
  • Convocation Address, Manonmaniam Sundarnar University, Tirunelveli.
  • Parikshit Tampuran Memorial Lecture, Tripunithura Sanskrit College.
  • M.S.Menon Memorial Lecture, Calicut University, Calicut.
  • Kappen Memorial Lecture, Bangalore.
  • Foundation Day Lecture, Indian Council for Historical Research, Bangalore.
  • Freda Laski Memorial Lecture, Lucknow.
  • Sarat Bose Memorial Lecture, Calcutta.
  • Annual Lecture, Sree Venkiteswara College, Delhi University.
  • R.Sankara Narayanan Thampi Memorial Lecture, Thiruvananthapuram.
  • D.D.Kosambi Memorial Lecture, Pune.
  • D.D. Kosambi Memorial Lecture, Ruia College., Mumbai.
  • Balawant Rai Mehta Memorial Lecture, Bombay University.
  • Convocation Address, North Bengal University.
  • Bhaskaran Nair Memorial Lecture, Thiruvananthapuram
  • Convocation Address, Burdwan University.
  • Rajesh Kumar Memorial Lecture, Thiruvananthapuram, 2016

Countries Visited

United Kingdom, France, Italy, Holland, Denmark,Russia, Japan, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Costa  Rica, Cuba, Zimbawe, Hong Kong, Panama, Nicaragua, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Thailand, United Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Baharain, China and Turkey..

Publications

A. BOOKS

1. British Diplomacy in North India, Associate Publishing House, New Delhi, 1968.

2. Against Lord and State, religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1990.

3. Culture and Consciousness in Modern India, Peoples Publishing House, New Delhi, 1990 (Also in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi)

4. Culture, Ideology and Hegemony- Intellectuals and Social Consciousness in Colonial India, Tulika, New Delhi, 1996, Anthem Books, London, 2002.( Also in Hindi and Malayalam)

5. Communal Threat, Secular Challenge, Earth Worm, Madras, 1997 (Also  in Tamil)

6. Before the Night Falls: Forebodings of Fascism in India, Books for Change, Bangalore, 2002

7. Agenda for Cultural Action and Other Essays, Three Essays Press, New Delhi, 2002

8. Colonialism, Culture and Resistance, Oxford University Press , 2007

9. History as A Site of Struggle, Three Books Collective, New Delhi, 2014

10. Essays on the History and Society of  Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, 2015

11. John Malcolm, Political History of India, 2 vols, Edited with Introduction and Explanatory Notes, Associated Publishing House, New Delhi, 1970.

12. National and Left Movements in India, Vikas, New Delhi, 1980

13. Peasant Protest and Revolts in Malabar- A Source Volume, Peoples Publishing House, New Delhi, 1990.

14. Communalism in India- History, Politics and Culture, Manohar, New Delhi, 1992

15. A Concerned Indian’s Guide to Communalism, Penguin, New Delhi, 1999. Also in Tamil and Malayalam

16. Making of History, Edited With Terry Byres and Utsa Patnaik, Tulika, New Delhi. 2000.

17. Towards Freedom, 1940, A Documentary History of the Freedom Struggle. New Delhi, 2008. ( Earlier withheld from Publication by the Indian Council for Historical Research)

18. Communalism, Civil Society and the State: Reflections on a Decade of Turbulance, Edited with Sukumar Muralidharan. , New Delhi, 2002.

19. Perspectves on Modern Indian Hisyory, Popular Prakasan Bombay

20. Higher Education in India, Pearson Publications.

B. Books Edited

(Some of the above books also published in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu)

Books in Malayalam

1. Samskaravum Avabhodam Adunika Indiayil, Thiruvanantapuram, 1975

2. Vargiyatayude Pratyayashastram, Thiruvantapuram. 1991

3. Vargeeyata, Matanirapekshata, Samskaram, Kozhikode, 1997

4. Vargeeyatayude Verukal Tedi, Kozhikode, 1900

5. Samskaravum Desiyatayum, Trichur, 2002

6. Malabar Kalapam, , Kottayam,2004

7. Iruttu Veezhum Mumbu, Calicut,2005.

8. Fascistinte Nalukal, Calcut, 2005

9. Sambhashnangal, Calicut,2005.

10. Colonialism, Samskaram, Parampryabudhigeevikal, Thiruvananthapuram 2006

11. Secular Patangal, Thiruvananthapuram, 2007.

12. Sambhashanangal, Trissur, 2008

13. Thirenjeditha Prabandangal, Trissur, 2009.

14. Samakarika Bhauthikam, Kottayam, 2013

15. Charithinnu Sambhavikunnatu, Kopzhikode, 2016

Books in Hindi

1. Sanskiti, Chetana, Vichardara, New Delhi, 1995

2. Aupaniveshik Bharat Me Sanskitic aur Vichratmak Sankarsh, New Delhi, 2003

C. Chapters in Books

1. ‘The first Major Challenge: the Revolt of 1857’; ‘Socio Religious Reform and the National Awakening’ in Bipan Chandra et.al., India’s Struggle for Independence, Penguin, New Delhi, 1988.

2. ‘Towards an Agenda of Secularsm’, in Rajendra Sail and Ajit Murickan ed. Transending Boundaries,Bombay, 1995

3.  ‘The Intellectual History of Colonial India’ in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Romila Thapar Ed. Situating Indian History, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1986.

4. ‘A Historical Overview’in S. Gopal Ed. Anatomy of Confrontation- the Babri Masjid- Ramjanmabhoomi Issue, Penguin, New Delhi, 1991.

5. ‘Vaikkam Satyagraha: The Struggle Against Untouchability’, in Ravi Dayal Ed. We Fought Together for Freedom Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

6. ‘Perception of the Role of Tradition in the Quest for Modernity in Colonial India’, in the Proceedings of International Conference on the East and the Meaning of History, Rome, 1994.

7. ‘Globalisation and Culture’ in Globalisation and SAP: Trends and Impact, Mumbai, 1997.

8. ‘Creating a Cultural Taste: Reading a nineteenth Century Malayalam Novel’ in R. Champaklakshmi and Romila Thapar Ed. Tradition, Dissent and Ideology, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996.

9. ‘The “Great” Shoe Question: Tradition, Legitimacy, and Power in Colonial India’, in Katja Fullberg-Stolberg, Petra Heidrich, Ellinor Schone Ed. Dissociation and Appropriation: Responses to Glogalisation in Asia and Africa, Berlin 1999.

10. ‘Peasant Revolts in Malabar’ in P.J. Cherian Ed. Perspectives on Kerala History, Trivandrum, 1999.

11. ‘Peasant Revolts in Malabar in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, in A. R. Desai Ed. Peasant Struggles in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1975.

12. ‘Land Control, Ideology, and Reforms: A Study of the Change in family Organisation and Marriage System in Kerala’ in S.C. Mallik Ed. Determinants of Social Status in India, Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 1986.

13. History and Archives’ in History on the March, Kerala History Association, Kochi, 1965.

14. Religious Symbols and Political Mobilisation’ in Rajeswari Ghosh Ed. In Quest of A Secular Symbol, Hong Kong, 1996

15. ‘Cultural Contest in Colonial India’ in UNESCO Seminar Proceedings, Harare, 1989.

16. ‘ Culture, Nationalism and Communal Politics’ in K.N.Panikkar et al Ed. Making of History, Tulika, New Delhi, 2000.

17. ‘Hindu : Secularism Challenged’ in Zubeida Mustafa (ed), The South Asian Century, Karachi,2001

18. ‘Whatever happened to the Renaissance in India’ in K. Satchidannadan (Ed.) Antaral: End Century Meditations, New Delhi, 2002.

19. ‘A Dangerous Decade’ in K.N. Panikkar and Sukumar Muraleedharan ( Ed.) in Communalism, Civil Society and the State : Reflections on a Decade of  Turbulance, New Delhi, 2002.

20. ‘Cultural Pasts and National Identity’in  India and Indology: Past, Present and Future, Calcutta, 2004

21. ‘Colonial Heterogeneity and Cultural Change’ in Bipan Chandra and Mahajan, Sucheta (ed), Composite Culture in a Multicultural society, New Delhi, 2007

22. ‘Cultural Trends in Pre-Colonial India’ in Irfan Habib and Druv Raina (ed), History of Science,  Delhi,2007.

23. ‘History Through Facts and Myths’ in Madhusree Dutta & Smriti Nevatia (ed.), Sites and Practices: An Exercise in Cultural Pedagogy, Mumbai, 2006

ARTICLES

1. ‘Agrarian Legislation and Social classes in Malabar’, Economic and Political Weekly,28 May, 1978.

2. ‘Cultural Trends in Pre-Colonial India: An Overview’, Studies in Histroy,1980, No.2.

3. ‘Peasant Exploitation in Malabar in the Nineteenth Century: Continuity and Change’, Journal of Kerala History, 1986

4. ‘Culture and Ideology: Contradictions in the Intellectual History of Colonial India’, Economic and Political Weekly, December 1987.

5. ‘Cultural Implications of Colonialism, the Indian Experience’, International Seminar on Culture, Kashima City, Japan, August, 1990.

6. ‘Appropriation of History and Historian’s Role’, South Indian History Congress, Presidential Address, Historiography Section, 1991.

7. ‘Culture and Hegemony: Revitalisation of Indigenous Medicine in Keralam’, Studies in History, July- Dec.1992.

8. ‘Culture and Communalism’, Social Scientist, March-April, 1993

9. ‘In Defence of ‘Old’ History’, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 Dec. 1994.

10. ‘Conceptualising Nationalism in India’, Father Heras Memorial Lectures, Father Heras Institute, Bombay,1996.

11. ‘Left Cultural Intervention’, Economic and Political Weekly, 12 April 1997.

12. ‘International Discourse Today’, Key Note Address to the International Conference on Globalisation and International Solidarity, Bombay, 1998.

13. ‘Nationalism and Communalism in Colonial India’ Lecture delivered at Centre for South Asian Studies, Humbolt University, Berlin, 1998.

14. ‘Interrogating Colonialism: Novel as Imagined History’, Sahitya Academy Seminar, New Delhi, 1999.

15. Outsider as Enemy: Politics of Rewriting History, ICANAS Conference, Montreal Canada, 2000

16. Whatever Happened to the Renaissance in India, Antaral Lecture, 2000, Sahitya Academy, New Delhi.

17. Culture, Colonialism and Revivalism, West Bengal History Association Annual Conference, Key Note Address, 2001.

18. Cultural Pasts and National Identity, Kappen Memorial Lecture, Vistar, Bangalore, 2004

19. Minorities in South Asia, Workshop on the Condition of Minorities in South Asia, Key Note Address, New Delhi, 2005

20. History Textbooks in India : Narratives of Religious Nationalism, International Conference of Historians, Sydney, 2005

21. ‘Values of Higher Education in a Multi cultural Society’, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Vol.XXI, No.1, Jan 2007

22. ‘Culture as a Site of Struggle’, Presidential Address to the Indian History Congress, 39th Session, 2008. Published in Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XLIV, No.7, 14 Feb.2009

23. Imperatives of a Left Political Public sphere,  Economic and Political Weekly, 30 October 2015

AND SEVERAL OTHERS.

Articles in Newspapers and  popular journals which are  far too many to be listed.