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Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, FBA, FRSL (May 18, 1945 April 19, 2015) from Tunbridge Wells, England,was an historian specializing in British Imperial, Indian and global history.[1]

Having obtained his BA, MA, and DPhil (1970) degrees from the University of Oxford, the latter under thesupervision of John Andrew Gallagher, he was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History atthe University of Cambridge and a trustee of the British Museum.

In 1990, Bayly was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2004 was awarded the Wolfson HistoryOeuvre Prize for his many contributions to the discipline. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday HonoursList of 2007 for his services to History. Upon being informed of the knighthood, he stated: "I regard this notonly as a great personal honour but, as an historian of India, as recognition of the growing importance of thehistory of the non-western world." [2]

In 2007, he succeeded Professor Sir John Baker as President of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Bayly alsobecame the Director of Cambridge's Centre of South Asian Studies. He was co-editor of The New CambridgeHistory of India and sat on the editorial board of various academic journals.

Selected bibliographyThe Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad, 1880-1920 (1975)Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1780-1870 (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(http://books.google.com/books?id=qXH9xGCWjYUC), Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-01748-1Bayly, Christopher; Harper, Timothy (2007), Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia(http://books.google.com/books?id=0M4Pl_VCExgC), Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-02153-2Bayly, Christopher Alan (2012), Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism andEmpire (http://books.google.com/books?id=0GLAWY6L8fIC), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-139-50518-5

Notes1. "Scroll.in - News. Politics. Culture." (http://scroll.in/article/721951/Christopher-Alan-Bayly,-pre-eminent-Western-

historian-of-India,-dies). scroll.in.2. Fright for knight as good news lost in post (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?

storyCode=209435&sectioncode=26) Times Higher Education

External linksChristopher Bayly's webpage at the Cambridge Faculty of History(http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/cab1002@cam.ac.uk)Christopher Bayly's webpage at the British Museum(http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/management_and_governance/trustees/christopher_bayly.aspx)

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