Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian historian
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Place of Birth: Kollam, Kerala, India
About Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai
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- Kunjan Pillai (8 November 1904 – 4 March 1973), known as Elamkulam, was an Indian historian, linguist and academic from southern Kerala, India.
- He was a pioneering scholar of southern Indian history, Kerala history, in particular.
- Although only holding academic degrees in Sanskrit and Malayalam, and having no formal training as a historian, Elamkulam is considered one of the pioneers of modern Kerala historiography.He was one of the major proponents of the unitary/imperial state model in medieval Kerala history.
- The Elamkulam model of a highly centralised "empire" (unitary/Imperial state model) in medieval Kerala is now considered not acceptable by south Indian historians.
- Majority of Elamkulam's works are written in Malayalam, with a few in Tamil and English.He was well versed in Kannada, Tulu (largest nonliterary South Dravidian language) and Pali (language of the Theravada Buddhist canon) also.
- He was also considered as one of the top authorities in Vattezhuthu script and Old/Early Malayalam language.Elamkulam associated himself for some time with Mortimer Wheeler in the excavation works at Harappa, Chandravally, and Brahmagiri.
- He is also known for informally guiding M.
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- Narayanan, a research scholar in University of Kerala in early 1970s.
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