Professor Sivasubramaniam Pathmanathan (born 20 March 1940) is a Sri Lankan Tamil historian, academic, author and current chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
[2] After school he joined the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya from where he received a BA special degree in history in 1963.
[2] Pathmanathan joined the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya in 1963 as an assistant lecturer in history.
[5] He was a visiting professor at Eastern University, Sri Lanka (2007–08) where he helped establish the Hindu Civilisation discipline.
[3] In 2008 he served as a consultant in Hindu studies at the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka.