[INDOLOGY] Fwd: KCHR SEMINAR - M.G. S. NARAYANAN: RETHINKING KERALA’S PAST, REIMAGINING HISTORY

Fri May 9 13:41:17 UTC 2025

(M.G.S. Narayanan or simply MGS, died at the age of 92 at his residence in Kozhikode on Saturday April 26, 2025)

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/historian-mgs-narayanan-passes-away/article69493479.ece

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Sir/Ma'am,

Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) organizes a seminar on

 M.G. S. NARAYANAN: RETHINKING KERALA’S PAST, REIMAGINING HISTORY

 15th May, 2025 (Thursday)

Venue:  Jubilee Hall, Hotel Alakapuri, Palayam, Kozhikode

M. G. S. Narayanan (1932-2025) was a renowned Indian historian, public intellectual, academic and political commentator. He headed the Department of History at Calicut University and later served as the Member Secretary (1990-92) and as the Chairperson of the Indian Council of Historical Research (2001–03). He is considered as "one of India’s top authorities of pre-modern history of India" and who struck an objective and scientific pathway in Kerala history research.

He was Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow, SOAS, University of London (1974 –75); Visiting Fellow, Universities of Moscow and Leningrad (1991); First Member Secretary, ICHR, New Delhi (1990-92); Member of UGC Panel in History, UGC National Lecturer, UGC Visiting Professor, School of Social Sciences, MG University, Kottayam (1992-93); Visiting Research Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo (1994-95); Visiting Professor, Mangalore University (1996), Chairperson, ICHR, New Delhi (2001-03), and Chairperson, Technical Advisory Committee for Kerala State Archives (2004-05).

Since 1969, he was closely associated with the Indian History Congress, of which he was member of Executive Committee for several years from 1974; Local Secretary (1976); President of Section I-Ancient India (1978); Joint Secretary for many years, and General Secretary (1983-1985). He was President of Indian History and Culture Society (2001). Professor Narayanan took active part in establishing and promoting South Indian History Congress, Epigraphical Society of India, and Place Name Society of India; and has been Member of Executive Committee and President of these bodies at different times. He was member of the following academic bodies: Editorial Committee, Journal of Indian History, Indian Historical Review; Editorial Board, History Text Books in the NCERT; and Team Project on Socio-Religious Movements, Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.

As General Editor of the Calicut University Historical Series, he brought out three volumes of sources for Kerala History, including Vanjeri Grandhavari (1987) which he himself edited. He was Chief Editor of Malabar (1994), a compilation of extracts from research works in the last hundred years. His doctoral dissertation had been printed under the title of Perumals of Kerala (1996).

In Malayalam, he is the author of India Charithra Parichayam (1969); Sahithya Aparadhangal (1970); Kerala Charitrattinte Adisthaana Shilakal (2000); Kozhikkodinte Katha (2001); Secular Jaatiyum Secular Matavum (2001); Janaadhipatyavum Communisavum (2004), and Keralacharithrathile Pathu Kallakkadhakal (2016), besides essays on history and literature published in important journals and magazines.

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