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Social Formations in Early South India - Prof. Kesavan Veluthat

#KarwaanDistinguishedLecture About the Speaker: Prof. Kesavan Veluthat is one of the most important historians of precolonial South India from his generation. He is best known for his studies on the brahmana settlements in Kerala and political structure in early medieval South India, besides earning recognition as the theorist of South India’s early medieval epoch. He taught at a couple of government colleges before joining the Department of History, Mangalore University, where he taught from 1982 to 2008. He joined the University of Delhi as Professor of History in 2009, from where he retired in 2016. Veluthat has also been a visiting professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He currently heads the Institute for the Study of the Heritage of Coastal Kerala, Kodungallur. In the course of his illustrious career spanning more than four decades, Veluthat published 18 books in English and Malayalam, including two monographs and three collections of essays. Prof. Veluthat’s first major landmark was a 1978 paper (which he jointly authored with M.G.S. Narayanan) on the Vaishnava Alvar and Shaiva Nayanar Bhakti movements in South India. Prof. Veluthat’s next major work was The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India, which was based on his Ph.D. thesis. In this work, he argued that the early medieval state in South India was feudal in structure. The thesis was, in theoretical terms, far-reaching. In Veluthat’s estimation, the early medieval state was also the earliest state in South India, for the state as an institution was unknown in the preceding early historical period. He has been a sectional president and joint secretary of the Indian History Congress. The Asiatic Society of Mumbai recently decorated him with the prestigious Campbell Memorial Gold Medal.