The academic community has mourned the loss of eminent historian R. Champakalakshmi, former president of Indian History Congress and professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, who died on Monday.
Her colleague and former vice chairperson of Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) K.N. Panikkar viewed the demise as an irretrievable loss to the scholarly world in general and Indian history in particular.
“She had made a long and distinguished contribution to the study and research of ancient south Indian history that is revered both within and outside the country. She was a teacher who devoted considerable time to meticulous research orientation of her students’ work. She shared her enormous fund of knowledge with her students and colleagues,” he reminisced.
