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E. Sreedharan was born on 12 June 1932 in present-day Karukaputhur, Palakkad District, Kerala, India into a Hindu Malayali family [11] [12] to Keezhveettil Neelakandan Moosath and Ammaluamma. [13] Sreedharan's primary education was from Government Lower Primary School Chathannur near Pattambi in Palakkad district.
The Dīpavaṃsa [1] (दीपवंस, Pali: [diːpɐˈʋɐ̃sɐ], "Chronicle of the Island") is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka.The chronicle is believed to be compiled from Atthakatha and other sources around the 3rd to 4th century CE.
Alappat Sreedhara Menon (18 December 1925 – 23 July 2010), known as A. Sreedhara Menon, was an Indian historian from Kerala. [1] He is best known as the State Editor (1958–68) of Kerala District Gazetteers (1961–1975).
The Thūpavaṃsa is the purported legendary chronicle of the great stupa in Sri Lanka, mostly ahistorical stories from the 1st millennium. The Sāsanavaṃsa is Burmese text, written in 1861, [ 9 ] with a mythical description of central India from the 1st millennium BCE and thereafter, about the diffusion of Buddhism and its monastic ...
Geiger's Sinhala student G. C. Mendis was more openly skeptical about certain portions of the text, specifically citing the story of the Sinhala ancestor Vijaya as being too remote historically from its source and too similar to an epic poem or other literary creation to be seriously regarded as history.
Sreedharan is one of the names of the Hindu deity Vishnu.It is used as a male given name in India and the Indian diaspora. People with that name include: N. Sreedharan, One of the chief organisers of Communist Party in Central Travancore and former CPI(M) Secretariat Member
Karashima notes that Sastri's book remained the only authoritative scholarly book on the south Indian history for a number of reasons: nobody could match Sastri in bringing out a similar work; attacks from Tamil nationalists deterred historians from writing such a book; and new trends in history writing made composition of works on general ...
Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, Kesavan Veluthat (eds.), History and Theory: The Study of State, Institutions and the Making of History, Orient Blackswan, 2019 ISBN 978-9352874644 (Papers presented at a Seminar 'History and Theory: a Seminar in Memory of Professor R.S. Sharma', sponsored by the Indian Council of Historical Research and hosted by the ...