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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = L. A. Krishna Iyer<br />
| birth_place = [[Kerala]], India<br />
| occupation = [[Anthropologist]]<br>Historian<br />
| known for = Anthropological writings<br />
| children = L.K. Ananthakrishnan, L. K. Balaratnam, L.K. Ramachandran and LK Padmanabhan<br />
| parents = [[L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer]]<br />
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br />
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'''Lakshminarayanapuram Ananthakrishna Krishna Iyer''' was an Indian [[anthropologist]] and a writer of several books on the subject.<ref name="Listing on WorldCat">{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Listing on WorldCat |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AKrishna+Iyer%2C+L.+A.&qt=hot_author |publisher=WorldCat |accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> He was the head of the department of Anthropology at the [[University of Madras]] and was credited with studies on the tribal and scheduled caste people of Kerala, a work initiated by his father, [[L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer]], himself a noted anthropologist.<ref name="VidyarthiRai1977">{{Cite book |last1=Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=scgz0Uzn64YC&pg=PA58 |title=The Tribal Culture of India |last2=Binay Kumar Rai |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1977 |pages=58– |id=GGKEY:WY79CWZYNC2}}</ref> ''Anthropology in India'',<ref name="Anthropology in India">{{Cite book |last=L. A. Krishna Iyer and L. K. Bala Ratnam |title=Anthropology in India |publisher=B. V. Bhavan |year=1961 |pages=257 |oclc=639869627}}</ref> ''Social History of Kerala'', a two-volume historical study<ref name="Iyer1968">{{Cite book |last=L. A. Krishna Iyer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3ZuAAAAMAAJ |title=Social History of Kerala |publisher=Book Centre Publications |year=1968}}</ref> and ''The Travancore Tribes and Castes'', a three-volume account of the tribal people of southern Kerala<ref name="Boban1998">{{Cite book |last=K. Jose Boban |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uBRkv35dCAC&pg=PA318 |title=Tribal Ethnomedicine: Continuity and Change |date=1 January 1998 |publisher=APH Publishing |isbn=978-81-7648-027-7 |pages=318–}}</ref> are some of his notable works. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1972, for his contributions to science.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Padma Awards |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |url-status=dead |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |accessdate=3 January 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 October 2015}}</ref> His sons, L.K. Ananthakrishnan, L. K. Balaratnam, is also a known anthropologist.<ref name="VidyarthiRai1977" /> Dr L.K. Ramachandran noted Scientist/ Bio-Chemist/> L.K. Padmanabhan His daughters, L.K. Lakshmi, L.K. Kamalam, L.K. Bhagirathy and L.K. Parvathy.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer]]<br />
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* {{Cite journal |date=2016 |title=The Travancore Tribes and Castes on ResearchGate |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273855359 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00078461 |s2cid=164147458 |accessdate=9 April 2016}}<br />
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