Kesavan Veluthat

Kesavan Veluthat is an Indian historian and academic from Kerala specializing in medieval south Indian history. He is also an epigraphist and knows languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.

Career

Veluthat received his undergraduate degree from National Council for Rural Higher Education, graduate degree from University of Calicut in 1974, M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University 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 Mangalore University. Veluthat retired as Professor and Chairman of the Department of History in 2008. He also served as professor of history at the Delhi University.
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 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He is a lifetime member of Indian History Congress. He was also associated with the National Assessment and Accreditation Council in assessing universities and colleges in India.

Major publications

The below are some of his major publications:

Brahman Settlements in Kerala: Historical Studies,
Kerala Through the Ages, with M. G. S. Narayanan, et al.
The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India,
State and Society in Pre-modern South India, ed., with R. Champakalakshmi and T. R. Venugopalan
The Early Medieval in South India, Oxford University Press,
Irreverent History: Essays for M. G. S. Narayanan, ed., with Donald R. Davis, Primus Books, Delhi, 2014