K N PanikkarK.N. Panikkar retired as Professor of Modern Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is the Founder Chairman of the Kerala Council for Historical Research and Founder Vice Chairman of Kerala Council for Higher Education. His mainarea of research has been the cultural and intellectual history of modern India, on which he has written extensively. Notable among his publications, which have been translated into several Indian languages, are: Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprising in Malabar; Culture, Ideology, Hegemony; Colonialism, Culture and Resistance; and History as a Site of Struggle: Essays on History, Culture, and Politics. Read More Read Less