Dr. K.N. Panikkar (born 1936) is an Indian Marxist historian . Panikkar is a former Vice Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala. Influenced by Marxism, his methods and his expressed positions in public life have evoked harsh criticism from right-wing intelligentia and political parties. Panikkar has been active in criticising the rise of communalist history in India.

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  • Dr. K.N. Panikkar (born 1936) is an Indian Marxist historian . Panikkar is a former Vice Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala. Influenced by Marxism, his methods and his expressed positions in public life have evoked harsh criticism from right-wing intelligentia and political parties. Panikkar has been active in criticising the rise of communalist history in India. His books include Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar; Culture and Consciousness in Modern India; Culture, Ideology and Hegemony – Intellectuals and Social Consciousness in Colonial India, and Before the Night Falls. K.N. Pannikar edited a number of books, including A Concerned Indian’s Guide to Communalism and the ICHR volume on Towards Freedom, 1940: A Documentary History of the Freedom Struggle (suppressed and withdrawn from press by the former BJP-led regime, now forthcoming). He is currently engaged in preparing a monograph on the intellectual history of colonial India for which he has been awarded a Bhabha Senior Fellowship. K.N. Pannikar has tried to present Sanskkrit drama for contemporary audiences.
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  • Dr. K.N. Panikkar (born 1936) is an Indian Marxist historian . Panikkar is a former Vice Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala. Influenced by Marxism, his methods and his expressed positions in public life have evoked harsh criticism from right-wing intelligentia and political parties. Panikkar has been active in criticising the rise of communalist history in India.
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  • K. N. Panikkar
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