M. G. S. Narayanan
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Muttayil Govindamenon Sankara Narayanan August 20, 1932 Ponnani |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Historian |
Muttayil Govindamenon Sankara Narayanan, born on 20 August 1932, more popularly known as MGS, is an Indian historian, academic and a former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (2001–03).
He was Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1974 –75); Visiting Fellow, Universities of Moscow and Leningrad (1991); Visiting Research Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo (1994–95).
Narayanan is among the few southern Indian historians known nationally and internationally. He is a scholar of southern Indian history, Kerala history, in particular. He is also a specialist in ancient Indian history.
Narayanan is the current Director General of Centre for Heritage Studies, Cochin.
Muttayil Govindamenon Sankara Narayanan was born at Ponnani, Malabar district on 20 August 1932. He had his early education at Parappanangadi, Ponnani, Calicut and Thrissur. He later moved to Madras (present day Chennai) to pursue his master's degree in History from Madras Christian College. He topped the University of Madras in his Post-Graduation in 1953 and later went on to complete his PhD from the University of Kerala in 1973. His 1972 thesis titled Perumals of Kerala was published in 2013.
He studied ancient scripts like Brahmi, Vattezhuttu and Grantha and is well versed in Classical Sanskrit and ancient Southern Indian scripts.
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