K. Madhava Panikkar

K. Madhava Panikkar ( Kavalam Madhava Panikkar ; often KM Panikkar ; born June 3, 1895 in Kavalam , Travancore , † December 10, 1963 in Mysore , Karnataka ) was an Indian journalist, historian, administrator and diplomat. He was born in Travancore and studied at Madras and the University of Oxford .

Life

After a period as a professor at Aligarh Muslim University and later at the University of Calcutta , he became editor of the Hindustan Times in 1925 . He later became Foreign Minister of the Princely State of Patiala and Prime Minister of the Princely State of Bikaner . He represented India at the 1947 UN General Assembly . In 1948 he was appointed Indian ambassador to China and held this post until 1952. From 1952 to 1953 he was Indian ambassador in Egypt and from 1956 to 1959 in France. He also translated some Greek tragedies into his native Malayalam . Panikkar was one of three members of the States Reorganization Commission that drafted the recommendations for the reorganization of Indian states in the States Reorganization Act 1956.

His well-known works include Asia and Western Dominance , a study of the influence of the Portuguese and Dutch and Christianity in India. He also traveled to Portugal and Holland to research his books Malabar and the Portuguese (1929) and Malabar and the Dutch .

Works

• 1920: Essays on Educational Reconstruction in India
• 1922: Sri Harsha of Kanauj: a monograph on the history of India in the first half of the 7th century AD
• 1923: Indian Nationalism: its origin, history, and ideals
• 1928: The Working of Dyarchy in India, 1919–1928
• 1929: The Evolution of British Policy towards Indian States, 1774-1858
• 1929: Malabar and the Portuguese: being a history of the relations of the Portuguese with Malabar from 1500 to 1663
• 1930: The Founding of the Kashmir State: a biography of Maharajah Gulab Singh , 1792-1858
• 1930: Federal India
• 1932: Indian States and the Government of India
• 1934: The New Empire: letters to a Conservative Member of Parliament on the future of England and India
• 1936: The Indian Princes in Council: a record of the chancellorship of His Highness, the Maharaja of Patiala , 1926-1931 and 1933-1936
• 1937: His Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner : a biography
• 1938: Hinduism and the modern world
• 1942: The States and the Constitutional Settlement
• 1943: Indian States
• 1944: The Strategic Problems of the Indian Ocean
• 1945: India and the Indian Ocean: an essay on the influence of sea power on Indian history
• 1947: India through the Ages
• 1953: Asia and Western Dominance: a survey of the Vasco Da Gama epoch of Asian history, 1498–1945
• 1954: A Survey of Indian History
• 1954: In Two Chinas: memoirs of a diplomat
• 1956: The Principles and Practice of Diplomacy
• 1957: Voice of Truth, a topical symposium: replies to attacks on Christians and missionaries in India
• 1957: India and China: a study of cultural relations
• 1958: The Determining Periods of Indian History
• 1960: A History of Kerala, 1498-1801
• 1960: The State and the Citizen
• 1961: Hindu Society at Cross Roads
• 1961: Essential Features of India Culture
• 1962: In Defense of Liberalism
• 1963: Studies in Indian History
• 1963: The Ideas of Sovereignty and State in Indian Political Thought
• 1963: The Foundations of New India
• 1963: The Himalayas in Indian Life
• 1964: A Survey of Indian History
• 1964: Hinduism & the West: a study in challenge and response
• 1964: The Serpent and the Crescent: a history of the Negro empires of western Africa
• 1965: Lectures on India's Contact with the World in the pre-British Period
• 1966: The Twentieth Century
• 1967: Caste and Democracy & Prospects of Democracy in India
• 1969: Geographical Factors in Indian History
• 1977: To Autobiography

Web links

• The Hindu Reformation KM Panikkar
• The Principle and Practices of Diplomacy KM Panikkar
• A tribute to smaller states ; The Hindu
• Appreciation as a strategic thinker, with photo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert P. Gwinn: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia, Otter - Rethimnon, Volume 9. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1987, p. 114 limited preview in the Google book search
2. ^ Nilakantha Rath: Separation is no solution to the problem of regional imbalance in development . In: Journal of Indian School of Political Economy . tape 21 , no. 1-4 , 2009, pp. 193–197 (English, online [PDF]).
3. ↑ To Autobiography, KM Panikkar, (Madras: Oxford University Press, 1977)

predecessor	Office	successor
	Indian ambassador in Beijing 1948–1952	N. Raghavan
Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee	Indian ambassador in Cairo 1952–1953	Ali Yavar Jung
Hardit Singh Malik	Indian ambassador in Paris 1956–1959	N. Raghavan