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Faculty Profile

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Abhilash Malayil 7034097231 abhilashmalayil@ssus.ac.in Profile Picture

Name: Abhilash Malayil

Mobile: 7034097231

Email: abhilashmalayil@ssus.ac.in

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Designation

Department Designation Campus Date of Joining
HISTORY Assistant Professor REGIONAL CENTER, TIRUR 2021-02-02

Department: HISTORY

Designation: Assistant Professor

Campus: REGIONAL CENTER, TIRUR

Joining Date: 2021-02-02

Professional Summary

Summary
Dr Abhilash Malayil was employed, since June 2010, as an Assistant Professor in History with the Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala before joining, in February 2020, with Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. He completed his doctoral research at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, in 2018. He became part of the European Research Council [ERC] funded research project, The New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India [NEEM], headed by Prof David Shulman at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Abhilash Malayil holds a Masters Degree in History from the Central University of Hyderabad and an M Phil degree in Medieval History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He studied economic history with Prof Rajat Datta and Dr Manu V Devadevan. His doctoral thesis, titled, ‘Land Regime, Agricultural Production and Politics of Credit Money in Eighteenth-Century Malabar’, has dealt with the eighteenth-century political economy of Malabar Coast, South-Western India. He is interested in the histories of sharecropping, landed property, and rural markets and now working towards completing a book manuscript on the instruments of money-credit and farm labour during the late eighteenth century. His Malayalam monograph, രയ്യത്തുവാരി: കമ്പനിസ്‌റ്റേറ്റും പൊളിറ്റിക്കൽ എക്കോണമിയും: മലബാർ ജില്ലയെ ആസ്പദമാക്കിയുള്ള നിരീക്ഷണങ്ങൾ was released in December 2021 from Other-Books Calicut.

Dr Abhilash Malayil was employed, since June 2010, as an Assistant Professor in History with the Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala before joining, in February 2020, with Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. He completed his doctoral research at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, in 2018. He became part of the European Research Council [ERC] funded research project, The New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India [NEEM], headed by Prof David Shulman at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Abhilash Malayil holds a Masters Degree in History from the Central University of Hyderabad and an M Phil degree in Medieval History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He studied economic history with Prof Rajat Datta and Dr Manu V Devadevan. His doctoral thesis, titled, ‘Land Regime, Agricultural Production and Politics of Credit Money in Eighteenth-Century Malabar’, has dealt with the eighteenth-century political economy of Malabar Coast, South-Western India. He is interested in the histories of sharecropping, landed property, and rural markets and now working towards completing a book manuscript on the instruments of money-credit and farm labour during the late eighteenth century. His Malayalam monograph, രയ്യത്തുവാരി: കമ്പനിസ്‌റ്റേറ്റും പൊളിറ്റിക്കൽ എക്കോണമിയും: മലബാർ ജില്ലയെ ആസ്പദമാക്കിയുള്ള നിരീക്ഷണങ്ങൾ was released in December 2021 from Other-Books Calicut.

Work Experience

Experience
Worked as Assistant Professor in various colleges run by the Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala for 4 years, 8 months and 7 days, since 11-06-2010.

Worked as Assistant Professor in various colleges run by the Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala for 4 years, 8 months and 7 days, since 11-06-2010.

Courses Taught

Courses
PHSS 11115 Themes in Kerala History I PHSS 11112 Kerala History Historiography and Sources

PHSS 11115 Themes in Kerala History I PHSS 11112 Kerala History Historiography and Sources

Other Achievements

Achievements
2023. [N.V. Krishna Varier Academic Price] for the best academic monograph written and published in Malayalam. The State Institute of Languages, Thiruvananthapuram, Government of Kerala. 2023—to present. Board of Studies Member, History Post Graduation, Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Tirur, Kerala. 2023. Member. Karwaan Book Award Jury, URL https://www.karwaanheritage.in/bookprize 2022—to present. Board of Studies Member, History Post Graduation, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. 2022— to present. Member, International Advisory Board, Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

2023. [N.V. Krishna Varier Academic Price] for the best academic monograph written and published in Malayalam. The State Institute of Languages, Thiruvananthapuram, Government of Kerala. 2023—to present. Board of Studies Member, History Post Graduation, Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Tirur, Kerala. 2023. Member. Karwaan Book Award Jury, URL https://www.karwaanheritage.in/bookprize 2022—to present. Board of Studies Member, History Post Graduation, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. 2022— to present. Member, International Advisory Board, Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Research Projects

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Post Doctoral Achievements

Achievements
Post Doctoral Fellow European Research Council [ERC] research project: The New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India [NEEM]. Period: October 2018--September 2020. Host Institution: The Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [https://neemerc.huji.ac.il/people/abhilash-malayil]

Post Doctoral Fellow European Research Council [ERC] research project: The New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India [NEEM]. Period: October 2018--September 2020. Host Institution: The Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [https://neemerc.huji.ac.il/people/abhilash-malayil]

Topic of Research/ Area of specialization

Topics
18th and 19th Century Economic History of Malabar, South Canara, Animal Labour Leccadive Islands

18th and 19th Century Economic History of Malabar, South Canara, Animal Labour Leccadive Islands

Details of ongoing Research scholars

Scholar Name Reg. No Topic PhD Reg. Year Department
Shashi Raja P 23 KA06HS03 NAYAKAS OF THE KELADI REALM: THEIR RECORDS AND THE STATE OF ECONOMY, 16TH AND 18TH CENTURIES 2023 HISTORY
Gayathri Devi S 21AK06HS06 THE ELEPHANT EMBLEM: POLITICAL ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT AND THE HISTORIES OF ELEPHANT MANAGEMENT IN PRINCELY TRAVANCORE 2022 HISTORY

Scholar: Shashi Raja P

Reg. No: 23 KA06HS03

Topic: NAYAKAS OF THE KELADI REALM: THEIR RECORDS AND THE STATE OF ECONOMY, 16TH AND 18TH CENTURIES

Reg. Year: 2023

Dept: HISTORY

Scholar: Gayathri Devi S

Reg. No: 21AK06HS06

Topic: THE ELEPHANT EMBLEM: POLITICAL ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT AND THE HISTORIES OF ELEPHANT MANAGEMENT IN PRINCELY TRAVANCORE

Reg. Year: 2022

Dept: HISTORY

Research Articles in Journals

Title Journal Name Year ISSN Type
King, Kinglessness and an Oral Poem: Political Authority and Its Discontents in Early Modern Malabar Cracow Indological Studies 2023 - ISSN (print) 1732-0917 ------ ISSN (online) 2449-8696 Peer reviewed
Commercialisation and Landed Proprietorship on the Malabar Coast in the Eighteenth Century Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2023 ISSN: 0019-4646; Online ISSN: 0973-0893 Peer reviewed
ചാത്തിരോല്പത്തി: സംഘക്കളിയരങ്ങും മധ്യകാല ബ്രാഹ്മണലോകവും Tapasam 2023 ISSN : 2249-9873 UGC Care Listed
Sin of the King: Early Modern Kingship and the Deification of Victimhood in Malabar Tapasam 2022 ISSN : 2249-9873 UGC Care Listed

Title: King, Kinglessness and an Oral Poem: Political Authority and Its Discontents in Early Modern Malabar

Journal: Cracow Indological Studies

Year: 2023

ISSN: - ISSN (print) 1732-0917 ------ ISSN (online) 2449-8696

Type: Peer reviewed

Title: Commercialisation and Landed Proprietorship on the Malabar Coast in the Eighteenth Century

Journal: Indian Economic & Social History Review,

Year: 2023

ISSN: ISSN: 0019-4646; Online ISSN: 0973-0893

Type: Peer reviewed

Title: ചാത്തിരോല്പത്തി: സംഘക്കളിയരങ്ങും മധ്യകാല ബ്രാഹ്മണലോകവും

Journal: Tapasam

Year: 2023

ISSN: ISSN : 2249-9873

Type: UGC Care Listed

Title: Sin of the King: Early Modern Kingship and the Deification of Victimhood in Malabar

Journal: Tapasam

Year: 2022

ISSN: ISSN : 2249-9873

Type: UGC Care Listed

Participation in print and visual media

Year Title
2024 Abhilash Malayil: Moonrise of Detachment: A Note on Vairāgya Candṟōdaya Sāra Samkṣēpam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkU53EUM6s&t=801s
2024 ആദ്യാധുനികതയുടെ കാലദേശങ്ങൾ | Dinesan Vadakkiniyil | Sunil P Ilayidom | Abhilash Malayil | KLF 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXFSxY6buEE
2024 റയത്ത് വാരി: മലബാർ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ സാമ്പത്തിക ശാസ്ത്രം | BKF 4th Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKFk1gNXKA&t=1611s

Year: 2024

Title: Abhilash Malayil: Moonrise of Detachment: A Note on Vairāgya Candṟōdaya Sāra Samkṣēpam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkU53EUM6s&t=801s

Year: 2024

Title: ആദ്യാധുനികതയുടെ കാലദേശങ്ങൾ | Dinesan Vadakkiniyil | Sunil P Ilayidom | Abhilash Malayil | KLF 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXFSxY6buEE

Year: 2024

Title: റയത്ത് വാരി: മലബാർ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ സാമ്പത്തിക ശാസ്ത്രം | BKF 4th Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKFk1gNXKA&t=1611s

Honors and Recognitions

Year Award Name Type
2023 2023. En Vī Kṟiṣṇa Vārier Vaijñānīka Puraskāram-2023 [N.V. Krishna Varier Academic Price] for the best academic monograph written and published in Malayalam. The State Institute of Languages, Thiruvananthapuram, Government of Kerala. State
2022 Kerala Council for Historical Research Early Career Fellowship National

Year: 2023

Award: 2023. En Vī Kṟiṣṇa Vārier Vaijñānīka Puraskāram-2023 [N.V. Krishna Varier Academic Price] for the best academic monograph written and published in Malayalam. The State Institute of Languages, Thiruvananthapuram, Government of Kerala.

Type: State

Year: 2022

Award: Kerala Council for Historical Research Early Career Fellowship

Type: National

Books Published

Title Type Publisher Year ISBN
Rayyathuwari: Company Statum Political Econamiyum; Malabar Jillaye Aspadamakkiyulla Nireekshanangal Authored Other Books Kozhikode 01-01-2022 978-8195162307

Title: Rayyathuwari: Company Statum Political Econamiyum; Malabar Jillaye Aspadamakkiyulla Nireekshanangal

Type: Authored

Publisher: Other Books Kozhikode

Year: 01-01-2022

ISBN: 978-8195162307

Professional Development

Title Program Nature From To
UGC Sponsored 182nd Faculty Induction Programme Conducted by the UGC-Malavya Mission Teacher Training Centre, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Trivandrum Orientation programme 2024-07-19 2024-08-17
Syllabus Workshop on FYUGP: NEP, Syllabus Revision, Challenges and Prospects Organized by Post Graduate and Research Department of History, Maharajas College, Ernakulam, Sponsored by The Directorate of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala Short Term Course 2023-11-28 2023-11-29
One Week Faculty Development Programme on 'Gender Discourses in the Contemporary Society,' Organized by MGU-UGC STRIDE Faculty Development Programmes 2023-02-27 2023-03-04
Six-Day Faculty Induction Programme on Engaging Higher Education: University as Space for Academics, Organized y IQAC and UGC MHRD-STRIDE SSUS-Kalady Short Term Course 2021-11-25 2021-12-01
One week (Online) Interdisciplinary Faculty Development Programme on “Historiography and Research Methodology” Faculty Development Programmes 2021-04-19 2021-04-24
Academic Placement, FLAIR International Internship at University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom, Faculty Development Programmes 2014-03-04 2024-03-20

Title: UGC Sponsored 182nd Faculty Induction Programme Conducted by the UGC-Malavya Mission Teacher Training Centre, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Trivandrum

Nature: Orientation programme

From: 2024-07-19

To: 2024-08-17

Title: Syllabus Workshop on FYUGP: NEP, Syllabus Revision, Challenges and Prospects Organized by Post Graduate and Research Department of History, Maharajas College, Ernakulam, Sponsored by The Directorate of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala

Nature: Short Term Course

From: 2023-11-28

To: 2023-11-29

Title: One Week Faculty Development Programme on 'Gender Discourses in the Contemporary Society,' Organized by MGU-UGC STRIDE

Nature: Faculty Development Programmes

From: 2023-02-27

To: 2023-03-04

Title: Six-Day Faculty Induction Programme on Engaging Higher Education: University as Space for Academics, Organized y IQAC and UGC MHRD-STRIDE SSUS-Kalady

Nature: Short Term Course

From: 2021-11-25

To: 2021-12-01

Title: One week (Online) Interdisciplinary Faculty Development Programme on “Historiography and Research Methodology”

Nature: Faculty Development Programmes

From: 2021-04-19

To: 2021-04-24

Title: Academic Placement, FLAIR International Internship at University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom,

Nature: Faculty Development Programmes

From: 2014-03-04

To: 2024-03-20

Details of Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops attended

Name Date Paper Title Level Status
Professor Skariya Sakkaria Smāraka National Seminar,’ organized by the Department of Malayalam, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Ernakulam District., 13-14 March 2024 13-03-2024 Paḻaśśi- Talaśśēri Rēkhakaḷile Rāṣṭrīya Parivaṟttana Santaṟbham National N/A
Three-Day National Seminar on ‘Narrative Discourses of South India, Texts, Traditions and Techniques,’ organized by the Department of Sanskrit Sahithya, at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Regional Centre Ettumanur, 27-29 February 2024. 28-02-2024 ‘Brahma-Kṣatṟa and Half Brahminess: Some Foundational Legends from Kerala’ National N/A
Six-Day National Seminar on ‘Re-Imagining Post Modern Theories,’ organized by the Department of Malayalam at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Regional Centre Tirur Malapuram District, 4-10, January 2024. 05-01-2024 A Short History of the Historiography of Kerala National N/A
in Two-Day National Seminar, ‘Eighteenth Century Kerala: Society, Polity and Economy,’ organized by Farook College (Autonomous), Farook, Kozhikode, at Farook College (Autonomous), Farook, Kozhikode District., 11-12 December 2023. 11-12-2023 ‘The Eighteenth Century Precedent: Economy of Malabar and the Political Takeover of English East India Company,’ National N/A
Three-Day National Workshop on ‘Writing Local History and Epigraphy’, organized by Thuchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University at Thuchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University Campus Vakkad, Tirur, Malapuram District., 17-19 October 2023. 19-10-2023 ‘Pṟadēśika Caritṟa Niṟmitiyum Likhita Vijñānīyavum’ National N/A
‘Environmental History of Kerala: Knowledge, Developments and Movements’ organized by PG and Research Department of History, Farook College (Autonomous), Kozhikode. 17-03-2023 'Home Garden Economy in Malabar: Ecological Stability and Social Change' National N/A
A seminar organized in connection with the workshop, ‘Mathematical Texts and Practices in South India,’ organized by the French Institute of Pondicherry at the French Institute, Pondicherry, 30-31 January 2023. 30-01-2023 ‘The Hookery Episode: An Aspect of Money Circulation in Late Eighteenth Century Malabar’ National N/A
‘Recent Trends in Writing Kerala History: National Seminar’ organized by The Department of History, University of Calicut, Calicut University, Malapuram District. 04-01-2023 ‘Munro, Ellis and the Malabar Consensus: An Note on the Early Modern Landed Property Right,’ National N/A
Three-Day National Seminar, ‘Origins of Civilisations and Indian Histories’, at India International Centre, Delhi, organized by Research Division of the India International Centre, Delhi 26-07-2022 ‘Markers of Material Change in the Early Modern Southern India: Some Notes on the Coasts of Malabar’ National N/A
"പ്രദേശം ആഗോളത്തിലേക്ക് കണ്ണിചേരുമ്പോൾ: കൊയിലാണ്ടിയുടെ അനുഭവങ്ങൾ" കേരള ഫോക്കലോർ അക്കാദമിയുടെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തിൽ അന്തർദേശീയ വെബ്മിനാർ പരമ്പര, മലയാള വിഭാഗം, ശ്രീ ശങ്കരാചര്യ സർവ്വകലാശാല പ്രാദേശീക കേന്ദ്രം കൊയിലാണ്ടി സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചത് 06-08-2021 പ്രാദേശികതരമായ പതിനെട്ടാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടു സന്ദർഭങ്ങൾ: കൊയിലാണ്ടിയിൽ നിന്നുള്ള ഒരു കാഴ്ച International N/A
‘Assets of Money: Commercialization and Land Ownership in Malabar Coast-Some Observations on the Late Eighteenth Century Malabar Coast’, Invited Lecture in KCHR Webinar, Kerala Council for Historical Research [KCHR] Thiruvananthapuram 20-11-2020 ‘Assets of Money: Commercialization and Land Ownership in Malabar Coast-Some Observations on the Late Eighteenth Century Malabar Coast’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egfTUUC0-s0 National N/A
Invited Lecture, in the Online Lecture Series Organized by Kerala History Conference 01-11-2020 എന്റെ കേരള ചരിത്ര പഠനം https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp81x-OVGuI State N/A

Name: Professor Skariya Sakkaria Smāraka National Seminar,’ organized by the Department of Malayalam, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Ernakulam District., 13-14 March 2024

Date: 13-03-2024

Paper: Paḻaśśi- Talaśśēri Rēkhakaḷile Rāṣṭrīya Parivaṟttana Santaṟbham

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: Three-Day National Seminar on ‘Narrative Discourses of South India, Texts, Traditions and Techniques,’ organized by the Department of Sanskrit Sahithya, at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Regional Centre Ettumanur, 27-29 February 2024.

Date: 28-02-2024

Paper: ‘Brahma-Kṣatṟa and Half Brahminess: Some Foundational Legends from Kerala’

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: Six-Day National Seminar on ‘Re-Imagining Post Modern Theories,’ organized by the Department of Malayalam at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Regional Centre Tirur Malapuram District, 4-10, January 2024.

Date: 05-01-2024

Paper: A Short History of the Historiography of Kerala

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: in Two-Day National Seminar, ‘Eighteenth Century Kerala: Society, Polity and Economy,’ organized by Farook College (Autonomous), Farook, Kozhikode, at Farook College (Autonomous), Farook, Kozhikode District., 11-12 December 2023.

Date: 11-12-2023

Paper: ‘The Eighteenth Century Precedent: Economy of Malabar and the Political Takeover of English East India Company,’

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: Three-Day National Workshop on ‘Writing Local History and Epigraphy’, organized by Thuchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University at Thuchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University Campus Vakkad, Tirur, Malapuram District., 17-19 October 2023.

Date: 19-10-2023

Paper: ‘Pṟadēśika Caritṟa Niṟmitiyum Likhita Vijñānīyavum’

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: ‘Environmental History of Kerala: Knowledge, Developments and Movements’ organized by PG and Research Department of History, Farook College (Autonomous), Kozhikode.

Date: 17-03-2023

Paper: 'Home Garden Economy in Malabar: Ecological Stability and Social Change'

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: A seminar organized in connection with the workshop, ‘Mathematical Texts and Practices in South India,’ organized by the French Institute of Pondicherry at the French Institute, Pondicherry, 30-31 January 2023.

Date: 30-01-2023

Paper: ‘The Hookery Episode: An Aspect of Money Circulation in Late Eighteenth Century Malabar’

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: ‘Recent Trends in Writing Kerala History: National Seminar’ organized by The Department of History, University of Calicut, Calicut University, Malapuram District.

Date: 04-01-2023

Paper: ‘Munro, Ellis and the Malabar Consensus: An Note on the Early Modern Landed Property Right,’

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: Three-Day National Seminar, ‘Origins of Civilisations and Indian Histories’, at India International Centre, Delhi, organized by Research Division of the India International Centre, Delhi

Date: 26-07-2022

Paper: ‘Markers of Material Change in the Early Modern Southern India: Some Notes on the Coasts of Malabar’

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: "പ്രദേശം ആഗോളത്തിലേക്ക് കണ്ണിചേരുമ്പോൾ: കൊയിലാണ്ടിയുടെ അനുഭവങ്ങൾ" കേരള ഫോക്കലോർ അക്കാദമിയുടെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തിൽ അന്തർദേശീയ വെബ്മിനാർ പരമ്പര, മലയാള വിഭാഗം, ശ്രീ ശങ്കരാചര്യ സർവ്വകലാശാല പ്രാദേശീക കേന്ദ്രം കൊയിലാണ്ടി സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചത്

Date: 06-08-2021

Paper: പ്രാദേശികതരമായ പതിനെട്ടാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടു സന്ദർഭങ്ങൾ: കൊയിലാണ്ടിയിൽ നിന്നുള്ള ഒരു കാഴ്ച

Level: International

Status: N/A

Name: ‘Assets of Money: Commercialization and Land Ownership in Malabar Coast-Some Observations on the Late Eighteenth Century Malabar Coast’, Invited Lecture in KCHR Webinar, Kerala Council for Historical Research [KCHR] Thiruvananthapuram

Date: 20-11-2020

Paper: ‘Assets of Money: Commercialization and Land Ownership in Malabar Coast-Some Observations on the Late Eighteenth Century Malabar Coast’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egfTUUC0-s0

Level: National

Status: N/A

Name: Invited Lecture, in the Online Lecture Series Organized by Kerala History Conference

Date: 01-11-2020

Paper: എന്റെ കേരള ചരിത്ര പഠനം https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp81x-OVGuI

Level: State

Status: N/A