Christopher Alan Bayly

Sir Christopher Alan Bayly (born May 18, 1945 in Tunbridge Wells , Kent , † April 19, 2015 in Chicago ) was a British historian . His main research interests were India (especially colonial history), the British colonial empire and global history . Bayly became known for his criticism of Eurocentrism in history.

Bayly studied at Balliol and St. Antony College, Oxford University . He was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History , Fellow of St Catharine's College since 1970 and Director of the Center of South Asian Studies at Cambridge University . He wrote his doctoral thesis in Allahabad , the hometown of Indian independence politicians like Jawaharlal Nehru (subject of his first book), and has since established good contacts between the University of Cambridge and India. For example, he wrote studies on the relationship of local traders in North India during the rise of the East India Company and, with Tim Harper, on the history of India in the period shortly after World War II.

From 1990 he was a fellow of the British Academy . He was knighted in 2007 on Queen Elizabeth II's birthday . In 2004 he was awarded the Wolfson History Prize for his life's work . At the suggestion of the British Academy, he had been a trustee of the British Museum for a four-year term from May 2008 . He was co-editor of the New Cambridge History of India .

Selected publications

• The 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) (part of the New Cambridge History of India).
• 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).
• with Tim Harper: Forgotten Armies. The Fall of British Asia, 1941-45 (2004).
• with Tim Harper: Forgotten Wars: Revolution and the End of Empire in British Asia, 1945–55 (2007).
• The Birth of the Modern World. Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780-1914 , Blackwell, Malden (Mass.) 2004. ISBN 978-0-631-18799-8
  • German: The Birth of the Modern World: A Global History 1780–1914 , translated by Thomas Bertram and Martin Klaus. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt, M .; New York, NY 2008. ISBN 978-3-593-38724-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Christopher Alan Bayly in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Bayly at Cambridge University
• Christopher Alan Bayly: The Making of the Modern World . Le Monde diplomatique No. 7969 of May 12, 2006.

Remarks

1. ↑ Sir Christopher Alan Bayly. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Herfried Münkler: Political book: Achsenzeit der Menschheit . Zeit Online, December 7, 2006
3. ↑ Historian knighted . ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Start of article on highbeam.com from: History Today , August 1, 2007. 
4. ^ Trustee: Professor Sir Christopher Bayly . British Museum , accessed on April 21, 2015.
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5. ↑ Martin Jacques: Unheard voices. Review: Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper . The Guardian , Jan. 22, 2005
6. ↑ Summary of Christopher A. Bayly The Birth of the Modern World  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at uni-online, accessed on June 21, 2015.