Dr. Ajayan T

Dr Ajayan T got Ph.D. in History from the University of Kerala with the Junior Research Fellowship of Indian Council of Historical Research. He joined as Assistant Professor of History at KSMDB College, Sasthamcotta, Kerala, in 2017. He was awarded UGC Associate Fellowship in 2019 tenable for three years. In February 2020, he was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society, London. He served as the Summer Faculty Fellow at IIT Delhi from 1 June 2020 to 31 July 2020. He received international travel grant to present a seminar paper in London from Kerala Council of Historical Research in 2022. In the same year, he got Faculty Visiting Scholarship from the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge tenable for six months from June 2022 to December 2022. He availed the scholarship in November 2022.

He authors one book and fifteen articles including in Cambridge and SAGE journals indexed by popular international databases of Scopus and Web of Sciences. Currently, he is working on two major research projects funded by the ICHR and the ICWA as Project Director.  He is also serving as the resource person of the UGC HRDCs of the central universities. The publication of his two books are on the anvil.

He is also recognised research guide in History of the University of Kerala and two research scholars are working with him for the Ph.D. His area of expertise includes Modern India, Contemporary India, Indian federalism, Spanish Flu, Constitutional Studies, Higher Education and Research Methodology in History.

Fellowships and Scholarships:

  • Faculty Visiting Scholar, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 2022
  • Fellow, Royal Historical Society, London
  • UGC-Associate Fellow, IIAS, Shimla (2020-2023)
  • Project Director-ICHR
  • Project Director, ICWA, Govt. of India
  • Faculty Fellow-IIT Delhi
  • Fellow of RAS, London(2016)
  • JRF, ICHR (2010-2012)

Publications

Books

  • T, Dismissal of the First Communist Ministry in Kerala and the USA, Partridge publishers (Penguin), Bloomington, USA, 2016. (ISBN.978-1-4828- 71791)
  • T., Centre-state Legislative Relations: A Re-examination, (forthcoming)
  • T., SAARC: Problems and Prospects funded by ICWA, Government of India (forthcoming)

Journals

  • 2022
    • Ajayan Thankappannair, Land Tenure in Kerala and the Communist Agrarian Reform of 1958, Historia Agraria, Issue 87, August 2022, pp. 191-214, IF-0.78
  • 2021
    • T, Centre-state Relations: A Kerala Experience, Perspectives of Federalism, Vol.3, 2021, IF 0.38
  • 2020
    • Ajayan., Community Organisations in Malabar, Islamic Quarterly, Vol. 63-4 London, pp513-522, 0.12
  • 2019
    • Ajayan., First Communist Regime in Kerala, Cambridge Journal of China Studies, Vol. 14, No1, University of Cambridge
    • Ajayan., Kerala Education Act-1958, History Research Journal, Vol-5, Issue-6, Nov-Dec, pp137-158, IF-2
  • 2018
    • Ajayan., Liberation Struggle and the Dismissal of the First Communist Ministry in Kerala, South Asia Journal, ISBN. 978-0-9963929-4-5, Issue 17,Winter, New Jersey, USA, pp-31-39.
  • 2017
    • Ajayan, Dismissal of the First Communist Ministry in Kerala and Extraneous Agencies, Journal of South Asianist, ISBN 2050-487X, Vol. 5, No.1,University of Edinburg, Scotland, United Kingdom, pp282-303.
    • Ajayan., Mid-term Election in Kerala in 1960 and the USA, Journal of History and Sociology of South Asia, SAGE, ISSN 2249-5312, Vol.11, No. 2, pp212 220, IF-0.45
  • 2016
    • Ajayan., Emergence of Community Organisations in Kerala, Reyono, ISSN. 2277, Vol. V, Issue-2, July 2016, pp72-87
    • Ajayan., Dismissal of the First Communist Ministry: An Epistemological Study, Journal of Society and Polity, ISSN 2320-6276, Vol. V, No. I, March, Govt. Maharajas college, Ernakulum, India, pp39-57.
  • 2015
    • Ajayan., Constitutionality of the Dismissal of the First Communist Ministry in Kerala, Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, ISSN No. 2348-0459, Vol. 4, No 6, Jabalpur, India, pp5-9, Impact Factor 2.3
  • 2014
    • Ajayan., Twenty-five Years of SAARC, International Journal of Third Concept, ISSN. 0970-7247, Vol. XXVIII, No.327, New Delhi, India, pp14-17
    • Ajayan., Communists in Government in Kerala, Review of Social Sciences, ISSN 0974-9004, Vol. XV, No.1, January-July 2014, Trivandrum, India, pp5-14.
    • Ajayan., Genesis of the Communist Party in Kerala, Journal of Indian History and Culture, ISSN 0975-7805, Vol. XX, September 2014, Chennai, India, pp265-80.
  • 2011
    • Ajayan., Agricultural Development in Kerala, Yojana, ISSN.09718397, Vol. 40-2, Trivandrum, India, pp35-38.
  • 2010
    • Ajayan., Grama Sabha and Panchayatiraj, Yojana, ISSN.09718389, Vol-39- 1, Trivandrum, India, pp73-74.
  • 2007
    • Ajayan., Panchayatiraj Reforms under the First Communist Ministry in Kerala, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies, Vol. XXIV, No.2, March 2007, Chennai, India, pp81-94.

Seminar Proceedings

  • Ajayan., (2009), Sir C.P. Ramaswamy and American Model of Government, National Seminar, S.N. College, Chempazhanthi, Trivandrum, India, pp85-88.
  • Ajayan., (2014), Communal Reservation and First Communist Ministry in Kerala, International Seminar of Svash, ISSN. 978-81-907480-9-4, Trivandrum, India,pp6-8.
  • Ajayan., (2014), Panchayatiraj Reforms under the First Communist Ministry in Kerala, UGC National Seminar, Government College, Nedumangad, pp28- 33