A. Sreedhara Menon, Date of Birth, Date of Death

A. Sreedhara Menon

Indian historian

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1925

Date of Death: 23-Jul-2010

Profession: historian, author

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Alappat Sreedhara Menon (18 December 1925 – 23 July 2010), known as A.
Sreedhara Menon, was a south Indian historian from Kerala.
He is best known as the State Editor (1958–68) of Kerala District Gazetteers (1961–1975).
He served as registrar of the Kerala University from 1968–1977, before retiring in 1980.Menon was educated in Maharaja's College, Cochin (English) and Madras University (History).
In 1953, he was granted a Smith Mundt Scholarship and a Fulbright Travel Grant for higher studies at Harvard University where he obtained his degree in Political Science.
On his return to India, he was appointed by the Government of Kerala as the State Editor of Kerala Gazetteers in 1958.Menon received Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, for Literature and Education in 2009.Menon died on 23 July 2010, aged 84, after some years of suffering ill-health.
He was survived by his wife, Sarojini Menon, and two children.