Kesavan Veluthat (born 1951) is an Indian historian and academic from

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specializing in medieval south Indian history. He is also an epigraphist and knows languages such as

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and

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Career

Veluthat received his undergraduate degree from National Council for Rural Higher Education, graduate degree from

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(Kerala) in 1974, M.Phil. from

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in 1978 and doctoral degree from the University of Calicut in 1987. He was a student of historian M. G. S. Narayanan. Veluthat started his career as a Kerala government service college teacher in 1975. In 1982 he moved to the newly formed

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. Veluthat retired as Professor and Chairman of the Department of History in 2008. He also served as professor of history at the

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. He was a visiting professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and

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, Hyderabad. He is a lifetime member of Indian History Congress. He was also associated with the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in assessing universities and colleges in India.

Major publications

The below are some of his major publications: * ''Brahman Settlements in Kerala: Historical Studies'', (Kozhikode, Sandhya Publications, 1978; revised and enlarged edition, CosmoBooks, Thrissur, 2013) * ''Kerala Through the Ages,'' (Thiruvananthapuram, Department of Public Relations, Government of Kerala, 1976) with M. G. S. Narayanan, et al. * ''The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India,'' (New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1993; second revised edition, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2012) * ''State and Society in Pre-modern South India,'' ed., with R. Champakalakshmi and T. R. Venugopalan (Cosmo Books, Thrisssur, 2002) * ''The Early Medieval in South India,'' Oxford University Press, (New Delhi, 2009; first paperback edition, 2010; sixth edition, 2014) * ''Irreverent History: Essays for M. G. S. Narayanan,'' ed., with Donald R. Davis, Primus Books, Delhi, 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Veluthat, Kesavan Living people Historians of India 1951 births 20th-century Indian historians Malayalam-language writers English-language writers from India Writers from Kerala 21st-century Indian historians Indian male essayists 20th-century Indian essayists Historians of Kerala