Perspectives of Modern Indian History

KN Panikkar is among the foremost historians of modern India. Formerly with the Jawaharlal Nehru University, he is currently the Vice Chancellor, Sree Sankeracharya University, Kalady, Kerala. His books include Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar (Oxford University Press, 1990), Culture and Consciousness in Malabar (Oxford University Press, 1990). He has also edited a number of books including A Concerned Indian's Guide to Communalism (Penguin, 1999) and the ICHR volume on towards Freedom, 1940, A Documentary History of the Freedom Struggle (unpublished and suppressed).