. . . "MGS Narayanan"@en . "Narayanan, M. G. S."@en . "Muttayil Govindamenon Sankara Narayanan"@en . "1932-08-20Z"^^ . . "Muttayil Govindamenon Sankara Narayanan (Malayalam: \u0D2E\u0D41\u0D31\u0D4D\u0D31\u0D2F\u0D3F\u0D32\u0D4D\u200D \u0D17\u0D4B\u0D35\u0D3F\u0D28\u0D4D\u0D26\u0D2E\u0D47\u0D28\u0D4B\u0D28\u0D4D\u200D \u0D36\u0D19\u0D4D\u0D15\u0D30\u0D28\u0D3E\u0D30\u0D3E\u0D2F\u0D23\u0D28\u0D4D\u200D), 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\u201303).He was Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1974 \u201375); Visiting Fellow, Universities of Moscow and Leningrad (1991); Visiting Research Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo (1994\u201395).Narayanan is among the few southern Indian historians known nationally and internationally. "@en . "Indian historian" . "1932Z"^^ .