Back هارى فاسوديفان ARZ হরিশঙ্কর বাসুদেবন Bengali/Bangla ਹਰੀ ਵਾਸੂਦੇਵਨ Punjabi Hari Vasudevan Turkish
Professor Hari Vasudevan | |
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 Professor Vasudevan taking a class at the Dept. of Modern History, University of Calcutta, December 2017. | |
| Born | 15 February 1952 Kolkata, India |
| Died | 10 May 2020 (aged 68) Kolkata, India |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, Writer |
| Spouse | Tapati Guha-Thakurta |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Ravi Vasudevan (brother)[1] |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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Hari Shankar Vasudevan (15 February 1952 – 10 May 2020) was an Indian historian, writer and emeritus professor. His work was primarily focused on history of Europe and India–Russia relations besides his contribution to the history of Russian and Central Asia.[2] He served as the president of the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata from July 2018 until he died in May 2020. His last publication was India and the October Revolution: Nationalist Revolutionaries, Bolshevik Power and Lord Curzon’s Nightmare, later published in multiple parts and volumes in the book titled The Global Impact of Russia’s Great War and Revolution (RGWR), and in its second book The Wider Arc of Revolution. It is also published in RGWR's second part titled Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 2019.
He was born around 1952 in Kolkata, India[3] to Methil Vasudevan who was an aeronautical engineer at Defence Science Organisation (in modern-day Defence Research and Development Organisation).[4] He did B.A. (Hons.) from Christ's College, Cambridge and then obtained his M.A. from University of Cambridge. He was married to an Indian historian, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, with whom he had a daughter, Mrinalini.[3][5]
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- ^ "University of Calcutta. Faculty Academic Profile/CV" (PDF). caluniv.ac.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2021.