Positions Held
He was Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research during 1987-93. He was also the President, Indian History Congress, 1981. In 1991 he was invited to deliver the Radhakrishnan Lecture at Oxford. He is an Elected Corresponding Fellow, British Royal Historical Society since 1997.
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