Kenneth A. Ballhatchet

Kenneth A. Ballhatchet
Born	(1922-11-29)29 November 1922 Bristol, England
Died	13 March 1995(1995-03-13) (aged 72)
Nationality	British
Occupation	University Professor

Kenneth A. Ballhatchet (29 November 1922 – 13 March 1995) was a British historian and university professor.

Biography

He was born in Bristol on 29 November 1922.[1]

He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol.[1] He graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge, where after an interruption for wartime service he received a first in Part II of the historical tripos in 1947.[1]

Ballhatchet was appointed lecturer in history at SOAS in 1948, leaving there to take up a readership at the University of Oxford. He returned to SOAS as Professor of the History of South Asian in 1965, retiring in 1988.[1] He is also listed as a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica and the article on James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie was largely written by him.[2]

He died on 13 March 1995.[1] After his death a Festschrift was published in his honour by Peter Robb.[1]

Bibliography

His notable books include:[3][4]

• Race, sex, and class under the Raj : imperial attitudes and policies and their critics, 1793-1905
• Social policy and social change in western India, 1817-1830
• The City in South Asia : pre-modern and modern
• Society and ideology : essays in South Asian history
• Class, caste and Catholicism in India 1789-1914
• Changing South Asia

References

1. Professor Kenneth A. Ballhatchet 1922–1995 by Peter Robb
2. "Kenneth A. Ballhatchet". Encyclopedia Britannica.
3. "Kenneth A. Ballhatchet Books | List of books by author Kenneth A. Ballhatchet". ThriftBooks.
4. "Ballhatchet, Kenneth". WorldCat. Retrieved 5 March 2023.

External links

• Festschrift