HISTORY HOUR
XAVIER CENTRE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Cordially invites you to a talk/discussion on
CULTURAL RESISTANCE IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
by
Prof. K. N. Panikkar
at
Xavier Centre of Historical Research
B. Borkar Road
Alto Porvorim
Monday, 14th August 2006
5. 30 pm
Tel: 2417772 ; 2414971
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prof. K. N. Panikkar is among the foremost historians of modern 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'. He has also 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the Freedom Struggle' (suppressed and withdrawn from press by the former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 Homi Bhabha Senior Fellowship.
K. N. Panikkar (b. 1936), Vice- Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya
University, Kalady, has established himself as a historian of
international repute, original and authentic in his views on the
Medieval and Modern History of India and the World. An outstanding
academic luminary, he holds prestigious Visiting Professorships in many
Universities in India, Europe and America. As an acknowledged Scholar
and Resource Person of History, he has been officiating as the
Chairperson of Expert Committees and Councils of establishments and
institutions as varied as IGNOU, ICHR, World Book Encyclopaedia, JNU,
Gazetteers and the National Archives. He is the Chairman of Kerala
Council for Historical Research (KCHR).
A life-long student and researcher in the historical discipline, he has
been very prolific as an author as well. He has published eight highly
rated books on the ideological, ethnic, socio-political and economic
undercurrents of the Modernist Phase of History. He has edited seven
monumental volumes of historical studies with Prefaces and Explanatory
Notes for publishers in India and abroad. He has contributed sixteen
Articles to various Anthologies of History and has fifteen original
Research Papers to his credit.
He has delivered fifteen Memorial and Foundation Lectures in India and
abroad and has visited twenty-two countries in the East and in the West
as our Cultural Emissary.
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