Christopher Alan Bayly

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Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, FBA (born 1945) is a British historian specializing in Indian, British Imperial, and Global History. He is currently the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2007 for his services to History. Upon being informed of the award 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."

[edit] 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, 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)
• The Birth of the Modern World. Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780-1914 (2004)
• Forgotten Armies. The Fall of British Asia, 1941-45 with Dr Tim Harper (2004)
• Forgotten Wars: Revolution and the End of Empire in British Asia, 1945-55 with Dr Tim Harper (2007)

[edit] External links

• Works by or about Christopher Alan Bayly in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Template:Http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic staff/further details/bayly.html