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Cambridge Historians and Impact of the British Rule

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Christopher Alan Bayly (May 18, 1945-April 18 , 2015), who has died suddenly in Chicago, was a virtuoso historian, perhaps the most gifted of his generation anywhere in the world. His work exhibited a prodigious thematic variety – crossing economic, social, political, cultural, and intellectual history, the histories of the visual arts and the natural sciences, of intelligence and war, of development and the Indian economy, of global intellectual history – as well as an exceptional chronological reach and global extension.

In his first body of work, in particular Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars, published in 1983, Professor Bayly changed how we think about the local roots of the origins and end of British rule in India. From this he developed in Imperial Meridian of 1989 a new interpretation of the transition between the First and Second British Empires. He went on, in a trilogy of key works – Empire and Information (1996), The Origins of Nationality in South Asia (1998), and Recovering Liberties (2011) – to examine how British Imperial power in India brought the intellectual worlds of Britain and India into dialogue. He changed how we understand how Indians responded as active agents to western science, nationalism and liberal political and economic thought.

He was also a brilliant global history comparativist who, in a series of connected monographs, in particular The Birth of the Modern World (2004), offered influential reinterpretations of the patterns of convergence in world history between 1750 and 1900. His work was throughout characterised by a quality of synthetic imagination, a capacity to spot unexpected connections, and a delicacy and wit of exposition.

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