 He was inducted as a distinguished fellow by the History Association and by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi in 1976.He received the Vallathol Award in 1992 and the Government of Kerala awarded him the inaugural Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, their highest literary award, in 1993.He was also honoured by two Indian universities with D.Litt; by Meerut University in 1991 and University of Kerala in 1992.