Mahatma Gandhi College

The college started functioning at Vadassery Amma Veedu at Perunthanni in 1948 and was later shifted to the present site^[7] at Kattachakkonam, now known as Kesavadasapuram. C. Rajagopalachari, the last Governor General of India, laid the foundation stone for the new building on 22 August 1948.^[7]

The Arts section was shifted to the building in 1949, and the Science section in 1950.^[7] The main building was completed in 1958 and was inaugurated by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, on 24 April 1958.^[7][8] The college celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 1974–75.^[7] The foundation stone of the three-storeyed Mannam Memorial Block was laid by P. K. Narayana Panicker, General Secretary of the Nair Service Society (NSS) on 23 April 1989^[7] and the block upon completion was inaugurated by Swaroop Singh, the then Governor of Kerala, on 02 October 1990.^[7]

The college has 2,000 students, 13 degree and 10 postgraduate courses.^[9] Besides providing research facilities in various disciplines, the college has started an Instrumentation course attached to the Department of Physics.

• Mohanlal^[10]
• Madhu
• Murali
• Padmarajan
• Adoor Bhasi
• Priyadarshan
• Anil Nedumangad
• Sooraj Santhosh
• M Vijayakumar
• KN Balagopal
• Thennala Balakrishna Pillai
• Shaji Kailas
• Baiju
• Manikuttan
• Saji Surendran
• Arun Kumar Aravind
• Santhosh
• V. Madhusoodanan Nair
• Jobby Justin
• Justice Paripoornan
• Kavalam Sreekumar
• G. R. Anil
• Kochu Preman
• Jagannatha Varma
• Babu Rajeev IAS
• Christy Fernandez IAS

Mahatma Gandhi College

Succession list of Principals (1948-2010)

Sri. K. R. Krishna Iyer M.A. B.L. (Hons) 1948 – 49.

Sri. V. Narayana Pillai M.A. B.L. 1949 – 52 .

Sri. P.K. Krishna Pillai. M. A. (Hons) 1952 – 55 .

Sri. Kainikkara M. Kumara Pillai MA LT 1955 – 56.

Sri. Venkatachalam Iyer M. A. 1956 – 58.

Sri . M.P. Manmadhan M.A. 1958-66 & 1969-70.

Sri. G. Balakrishna Pillai M.A. , B.L. 1966 – 69

Sri. K.R. Gopinathan Nair B.A., MCom 1970 – 73.

Sri. N. Chandrasekharan Nair M. A. LLB. 1973 – 76.

Sri. K. Gopalakrishnan Nair M.A. 1976 – 82.

Sri. P. M. Krishnan Nair M.Sc 1982 – 84

Sri. C. G. Rajappan Nair M.Sc 1984 – 86.

Sri. N. Gopalakrishna Pillai M.Com 1986 & 1991 – 92.

Sri. K. Kanakavally Amma M. Sc 1986.

Sri. G. Pankajakshan Pillai M. A. 1986 – 89.

Sri. N. Chandradattan Nair M.Sc 1989 – 91.

Sri. Harikumaran Nair M. Com 1992 – 94.

Sri. K.G. Padmanabhan Nair M.A. 1994 – 95.

Sri. S. Gopakumaran Nair M.Com. 1995 – 96.

Sri. K.G. Narayana Pillai M.Sc., Ph. D 1996 – 97.

Sri. K.S. Somanathan Nair M.A. 1997 – 98.

Sri. M.R. Mohandas M.Com 1998 – 99.

Sri. K. Ravindran Nair M.Sc. 1999 – 2001.

Sri. K. Gopalakrishnan Nair M.A. 2001 .

Sri. K. Ravindran Nair M.Sc 2001 – 04.

Sri. S. Vijaya Kumar M. A. M. Phil 2004 – 08

Dr. G. Madhukumar M.Sc. PhD, L.L.B 2008 – 2010

Dr.G. Jayakumar M.Sc.,M.Phil., PhD 2010 -...

In April 2013, the principal of Mahatma Gandhi College objected to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) college unit collecting money for an "evening farewell money".^[11] In a related event, the Kerala Women's Commission, after learning that student activists had detained a girl student for more than seven hours, launched its own inquiry.^[11]

On 29 July 2013, starting at around 10:30 am, several students and outsiders, suspected to be ABVP activists and sympathizers, hurled crude explosives and damaged college property at Mahatma Gandhi College.^[11][8] Police swung batons to disperse the students and detained 10 of them (though some of those detained could have been innocent).^[11] Following the incident, a "Special Investigation Team" was set up to investigate the incident, and Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan visited the college to see the damage.^[8] Due to clashes between the Students' Federation of India (SFI) and the ABVP, campus politics is banned as of 2019 per a Kerala High Court order.^[12]

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