Christopher alan bayly biography

Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, FBA, FRSL (– 18 April 2015) was a.
Sir Christopher Bayly, who has died suddenly aged 69, was the pre-eminent historian of India and the British empire and a pioneer of the field of global.
Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, FBA, FRSL was a British historian specialising in British Imperial, Indian and global history.

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Sir Christopher Bayly, Visiting Scholar of South Asian History, 1945-2015

The following article originally appeared in UChicago News on 22 April 2015.

Sir Christopher Bayly, the Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and one of the world’s foremost scholars on South Asian and British imperial history, died suddenly on April 19 in Chicago. Bayly was the Vere Harmsworth Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University.

Bayly was in the second term of his visiting appointment at UChicago, where he was teaching a course on India in world history and preparing to present the Vivekananda public lecture next month. Last year, during his first term at the University, he delivered a widely attended lecture titled “Making Hinduism a ‘World Religion’: Before and After Swami Vivekananda.”

In a message to faculty, Martha Roth, dean of the Division of the Humanities, remembered Bayly as a friend and colleague to many at the University. “His presence on campus as a superb scholar and generous friend will be missed,” she wrote.

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C.A. Bayly

The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914

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Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
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Forgotten Wars: The End Of Britain's Asian Empire
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Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire

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Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870

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Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830

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Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870

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Renowned historian Sir Christopher Bayly passes away

Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, one of the world’s most influential historians of India, passed away on April 20 of a heart attack. Bayly was appointed one of two of the University’s Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professors in 2013. Bayly revolutionized the field of world history by reshaping people’s understanding of India’s past. In 2007, Bayly was the first academic expert in extra-European history to be knighted, and he was also elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990.

“Bayly stood out as an exception in the growing specialization in Indian historical research,” Sarath Pillai, one of Bayly’s history Ph.D. students, wrote in an e-mail. “His grip over Indian history and world history made us think about the possibilities of combining both…. Bayly taught us that generosity and humility were indispensable to a mentor/teacher. His generosity was legendary and perhaps the single characteristic of his persona unquestionable to anybody who came in contact with him. At his passing, we have lost a great histori