Manu V. Devadevan

Last updated

Manu V. Devadevan (born 1977) is an Indian historian known for his works on pre-modern south India. [1] [2] He holds an expertise in multiple Indian languages. [3] He currently works at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. [1] [4] He has also published two poetry collections in Kannada and is also a translator. [2]

Manu Devadevan, originally from Kerala, grew up and studied in Bengaluru. [2] He completed his post-graduate degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University and completed his doctoral research from Mangalore University (under historian Kesavan Veluthat). [2] The Infosys Prize 2019 for Humanities was awarded to Manu Devadevan. [1]

Publications

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rama Kulasekhara</span> 11th century ruler of Kerala, India

Rama Kulasekhara was the last ruler of the Chera Perumal dynasty of medieval Kerala. He was a contemporary to Chola kings Kulottunga I (1070–1120) and Vikrama Chola. Rama Kulaskehara is best known for briefly recovering Kollam-Trivandrum-Nagercoil region from the powerful Chola empire around 1100/02 AD.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kulasekhara Alvar</span> Sri Vaishnava religious leader

Kulasekhara, one of the twelve Vaishnavite alvars, was a bhakti theologian and devotional poet from medieval south India. The Trikkulasekharapuram Temple in Kodungallur is considered as the Alvar's birthplace, located in modern-day Kerala region. He was the author of Perumal Tirumoli in Tamil and "Mukundamala" in Sanskrit. The Perumal Tirumoli, whose second decade is known as "Tetrarum Tiral", is compiled as a part of Nalayira Divya Prabandham. The Trikkulasekharapuram Temple in Kodungallur is considered as the Alvar's birthplace.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Quilon Syrian copper plates</span> 9th century royal grant issued to a Syrian Christian merchant in Kerala, India

The Kollam (Quilon) Syrian copper plates, also known as the Kollam Tarisappalli copper plates, are Indian copper plate inscriptions which document a royal grant of Ayyan Adikal, the chieftain of Kollam, to a Syrian Christian merchant named Mar Sapir Iso in Kerala, issued in approximately 850 CE. The inscription is engraved on six copper plates in Old Malayalam or early Middle Tamil, using Vattezhuthu script with some Grantha characters. It is considered the oldest known inscription from the Chera Perumal dynasty.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tapan Raychaudhuri</span> British-Indian historian (1926–2014)

Tapan Raychaudhuri was a British-Indian historian specialising in British Indian history, Indian economic history and the History of Bengal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rama Rajasekhara</span> 9th century Chera Perumal ruler from South India

Rama Rajasekhara was a Chera Perumal ruler of medieval Kerala, south India. Rajasekhara is usually identified by historians with Cheraman Perumal Nayanar, the venerated Shaiva (Nayanar) poet-musician of the Bhakti tradition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sanjay Subrahmanyam</span> Indian historian (born 1961)

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a historian of the early modern period. He is the author of several books and publications. He holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA which he joined in 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Dean Shulman</span> American poet

David Dean Shulman is an Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music. Bilingual in Hebrew and English, he has mastered Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu, and reads Greek, Russian, French, German, Persian, Arabic and Malayalam. He was formerly Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and professor in the now defunct Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies. Presently he holds a chair as Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1988.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Infosys Prize</span> Annual award given by the Infosys Science Foundation

The Infosys Prize is an annual award granted to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards for research in India. The prize for each category includes a gold medallion, a citation certificate, and prize money of US$100,000. The prize purse is tax free for winners living in India. The winners are selected by the jury of their respective categories, headed by the jury chairs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rajan Gurukkal</span>

Rajan Gurukkal is a leading Indian social scientist, historian, professor and writer. He has written many books and articles on different topics. He has also received awards for his works.

Kulasekhara is a South Asian male name, used as both given and last name, prevalent in south India and Sri Lanka.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jewish copper plates of Cochin</span> 10th-century Indian copper plate manuscript

Jewish copper plates of Cochin, also known as Cochin plates of Bhaskara Ravi-varman, is a royal charter issued by the Chera Perumal king of Kerala, south India to Joseph Rabban, a Jewish merchant magnate of Kodungallur. The charter shows the status and importance of the Jewish colony in Kodungallur (Cranganore) near Cochin on the Malabar Coast.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sthanu Ravi Varma</span> "Kulasekhara" Deva

Sthanu Ravi Varma, known as the Kulasekhara, was the Chera Perumal ruler of Kerala in southern India from 844/45 to 870/71 AD. He is the earliest Chera Perumal ruler known to scholars.

The legend of Cheraman Perumals is the medieval tradition associated with the Cheraman Perumals of Kerala. The sources of the legend include popular oral traditions and later literary compositions. The time of origin of the legend is not known to scholars. It seems the legend once had a common source well known to all Kerala people.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kurumathur inscription</span>

Kurumathur inscription, also romanised as Kurumattur, is a mid-9th century inscription from Kurumathur, near Areacode in Kerala, south India. The Sanskrit inscription in Pallava Grantha script is engraved on a loose granite slab from the Kurumathoor Vishnu temple. It is one of the rare Sanskrit inscriptions from Kerala.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">R. Champakalakshmi</span> Indian historian and social scientist (1932–2024)

Rangachari Champakalakshmi was an Indian historian and social scientist whose work focused on the study of early and pre-modern South Indian history. She served as a professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). In addition, Champakalakshmi was president of the Indian History Congress.

Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at Ashoka University. She was previously on the faculty of the department of history at the University of Delhi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kesavan Veluthat</span> Indian historian (born 1951)

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vazhappally copper plate</span> Malayalam inscription c. 882 CE

Vazhappally copper plate is a copper plate inscription in Malayalam language from Vazhappally, in the state of Kerala, south India. Recent scholarship puts the date of the plate in c. 882/83 AD.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chera Perumals of Makotai</span>

Cheraman Perumal dynasty, also known as the Perumal dynasty of Kerala, or Chera Perumals of Makotai, were a ruling dynasty in present-day Kerala, South India. Mahodayapuram, or Makotai, the seat of the Cheraman Perumals, is identified with present-day Kodungallur in central Kerala. Initially, their influence appeared limited to the area between present-day Quilon and Quilandy, but later extended to up to Chandragiri river in north Kerala and to Nagercoil in the south.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Old Malayalam</span> Inscriptional language found in Kerala from c. 9th to c. 12th century CE

Old Malayalam, the inscriptional language found in Kerala from c. 9th to c. 13th century CE, is the earliest attested form of Malayalam. The language was employed in several official records and transactions. Old Malayalam was mostly written in Vatteluttu script. Most of the inscriptions were found from the northern districts of Kerala, those lie adjacent to Tulu Nadu. The origin of Malayalam calendar dates back to year 825 CE.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Humanities (2019)". Infosys Prize.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Meet Manu V Devadevan, the Keralite Winner of Infosys Prize". Malayala Manorama. 2019.
  3. "IIT Mandi Professor Wins USD 100,000 for Research on Indian History". The Indian Express. 2019.
  4. "The Temple was Not a Vedic institution: Manu V. Devadevan". The Hindu. 2019. ISSN   0971-751X.