Christopher Alan Bayly

Sir Christopher Alan Bayly ( born 1945 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent ) is a British historian. His research interests are India (specifically the colonial history ), the British colonial empire and global history. Bayly is known for his critique of the Eurocentrism of historical science.

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

Since 1990 he is a Fellow of the British Academy. On the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, he was knighted in 2007. In 2004 he was awarded the Wolfson price. At the suggestion of the British Academy, he heard since May 2008 for a term of four years to the Trustees of the British Museum. He is 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).
  • Tim Harper: Forgotten Armies. The Fall of British Asia, 1941-45 ( 2004).
  • 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 ( 2004). In German as: The Birth of the Modern World: A Global History 1780-1914. From the English by Thomas Bertram and Martin Klaus. Frankfurt, M.; New York, NY: Campus -Verlag, 2008 ISBN 978-3-593-38724-6.
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