Commander (Dr.) Kalesh Mohanan, PhD, PDF is the Officer
in-Charge of Naval History Division based at Goa. He is a
visiting faculty and guide for PhD students in Military History
and Maritime Studies at the Naval War College and is a
recipient of Junior Research Fellowship from Indian Council of
Historical Research. He has done PhD and Postdoctoral
research in naval history from Jawaharlal Nehru University and
has published more than 30 articles in journals and newspaper
editorials. He has authored a few books, ‘Maritime Heritage of
India’
The Royal Indian Navy:
(Indian Navy, 2016), ‘
Trajectories, Transformations and the Transfer of Power’
(Routledge, London, 2019), ‘Breaking Waves, Making
History’
(Routledge, London, 2025) and
of Andaman & Nicobar Islands’ (Routledge, London, 2025).
‘Maritime Heritage
