Ankur Kakkar

Dr. Ankur Kakkar received his doctorate in History from the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Kakkar is presently a Fellow at the Prime Ministers Museum and Library in New Delhi where he is working on the research topic titled “Rethinking Nationalist Education: A Study of Indigenous Enterprises (1880-1980)”. Dr. Kakkar is also a member of the National Committee for the Development of Syllabi and Textbooks in Social Sciences in the light of NEP 2020 and NCFSE 2023. Dr. Kakkar has served as Associate Professor at the Centre for Indic Studies, Indus University, Ahmedabad where he taught core and elective courses on Indian Knowledge Systems (focussing on Indian history and Indian education) to undergraduate students.