Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) chaired by Professor K N Panikkar is an autonomous institution funded by the Higher Education Department, Government of Kerala. It is a research centre of the University of Kerala and has bilateral academic and exchange agreements with various universities and research institutes in India and abroad. KCHR strives to integrate advanced research and scholarship wit historical and social consciousness through its projects and programs.
KCHR is located at Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of Kerala State, India, in the multi-purpose cultural complex, Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan. It is housed in the blocks dedicated to the memory of the pioneer researchers on Kerala history, Sri K. P. Padmanabha Menon and Prof. Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai. Located between PMG junction and Nanthancode, it is about 12 km from the Trivandrum airport and less than 5 km from the Trivandrum railway and bus stations.
KCHR has a well equipped library and research centre with a fairly large collection of books on Kerala history and society. Malayali family history, biography and local history collections are some segments of KCHR contemporary history archives. KCHR publications include 28 volumes of seminal significance to research on Kerala society.
This announcement pertains to various academic programs for the year 2011 -2012
For more informations please visit : www.keralahistory.ac.in
Kerala Council for Historical Research KCHR Fellowships And Internships
The Director, KCHR,
PB No. 839, Vyloppilly Samskriti Bhavan, Nalanda.
Thiruvananthapuram - 695 003.
Tel/Fax: 0471 -2310409/0471 -6574988
E-mail: kchrtvm@gmail.com Web: www.keralahistory.ac.in