Christopher Bayly
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Christopher Alan Bayly
)Christopher Bayly | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 May 1945 |
| Died | 18 April 2015 (aged 69) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, Author |
Sir Christopher Alan Bayly,
British Imperial, Indian and global history.[1][2] From 1992 to 2013, he was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge
.
Early life
Bayly was from
John Andrew Gallagher
.
Academic career
Bayly was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 2013. He was also a trustee of the British Museum.[5]
In 2007, he succeeded
President of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Bayly also became the Director of Cambridge's Centre of South Asian Studies. He was co-editor of The New Cambridge History of India and sat on the editorial board of various academic journals.[5] He also served on the inaugural Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize
in 2009.
Death
Bayly died in Hyde Park, Chicago, on 18 April 2015, a month before his 70th birthday. He was in his second and last year as the Vivekananda Visiting Professor when he died.[6]
Honours
In 1990, Bayly was elected a
Queen's Birthday Honours, it was announced that he had been appointed a Knight Bachelor 'for services to History'.[7] Upon being informed of the knighthood, he stated: "I regard this not only as a great personal honour but, as an historian of India, as recognition of the growing importance of the history of the non-western world."[8]
In 2016, Bayly became the first person to be posthumously awarded the
Toynbee Prize for global history.[9]
Selected bibliography
- The Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad, 1880–1920 (1975)
- Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770–1870 (1983)
- Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (1988)
- Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780–1830 (1989)
- Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870 (1996)
- Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India (1997)
- The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780–1914 (2004)
- Bayly, Christopher; Harper, Timothy (2005). Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941–1945. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01748-1.
- Bayly, Christopher; Harper, Timothy (2007). Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02153-2.
- Bayly, Christopher Alan (2012). Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-50518-5.
- Remaking the Modern World, 1900-2015: Global Connections and Comparisons (2018)
References
- ^ "Scroll.in – News. Politics. Culture". scroll.in.
- ^ Drayton, Richard (23 April 2015). "Sir Christopher Bayly obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ^ "Professor Sir Christopher Bayly". Staff. Queen Mary, University of London. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ^ "The development of political organisation in the Allahabad locality, 1880–1925". Search Oxford Libraries Online. Bodleian Libraries. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ "Professor Sir Christopher Bayly historian obituary". telegraph.co.uk. The Telegraph. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- ^ "No. 58358". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2007. p. 1.
- ^ Wojtas, Olga (22 June 2007). "Fright for knight as good news lost in post". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ^ "Grants and Awards". The Seeley: History Faculty Newsletter (7). History Faculty, University of Cambridge. August 2016.
