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