Eminent historian and former JNU professor KN Panikkar passes away at 89 in Thiruvananthapuram

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Eminent historiographer and laminitis president of the Kerala Council for Historical Research, K.N. Panikkar (89), passed distant connected Monday astatine Pattom S.U.T. Hospital successful Thiruvananthapuram.Panikkar, who followed a Marxist attack to humanities writing, was 1 of India’s starring historians.Born successful 1936 successful Guruvayur, Thykkat, Kandiyur, to Krishnan Nair and Ichukutty Amma, helium was educated astatine Chavakkad Board High School, Palakkad Government Victoria College, and Rajasthan University.He became a prof of past astatine Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, wherever helium served arsenic caput of the department, dean of the School of Social Sciences, and president of the Archives of Contemporary History.

Panikkar besides served arsenic a visiting prof astatine respective overseas universities. He was Vice-Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, and astatine the clip of his passing, helium was serving arsenic Chairman of the Kerala Higher Education Council.