Dr. Agney G K – Best Paper Award

Dr. Agney G K, Department of History, was awarded the Best Paper in the first international conference on Modernities Refined organised by GITAM Banglore and sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research in February 2024. His research paper titled “Western Medicine and Public Health: How Travancore Crafted the Contaminated Spaces and Bodies” discussed how Travancore used the notion of filthy and disease ridden spaces and bodies to strengthen caste barriers in the princely state. The award was handed over by Prof (Dr) Satish Deshpande, Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.