Kesavan Veluthat

Kesavan Veluthat (born 1951) is an Indian historian specialising in early and medieval south Indian history. He is also an epigraphist and knows languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. He currently serves as a professor in University of Delhi and lives in Rohini, Delhi. Veluthat is a student of historian M. G. S. Narayanan.

Veluthat received his undergraduate degree from National Council for Rural Higher Education, graduate degree from University of Calicut (Kerala) in 1974, M. Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1978 and doctoral degree from University of Calicut in 1987. He started his career as a Kerala government service college teacher in 1975. In 1982 he moved to the newly formed Mangalore University. Veluthat retired as Professor and Chairman of the Department of History in 2008 and joined the University of Delhi in 2009. He was a visiting professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. He is life time member of Indian History Congress.

In 2008, Veluthat completed a major research project funded by the Ford Foundation known as "Historical Atlas of South India". He was also associated with the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in assessing universities and colleges in India.

• Brahman Settlements in Kerala: Historical Studies, (Kozhikode, Sandhya Publications, 1978; revised and enlarged edition, CosmoBooks, Thrisssur, 2013)
• The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India, (New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1993; second revised edition, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2012)
• Kerala Through the Ages, (Thiruvananthapuram, Department of Public Relations, Government of Kerala, 1976) with M. G. S. Narayanan, et al.
• State and Society in Pre-modern South India, ed., with R. Champakalakshmi and T. R. Venugopalan (Cosmo Books, Thrisssur, 2002)
• The Early Medieval in South India, Oxford University Press, (New Delhi, 2009; first paper back edition, 2010; sixth edition, 2014)
• Irreverent History: Essays for M. G. S. Narayanan, ed., with Donald R. Davis, Primus Books, Delhi, 2014