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

Biography

He was born in

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on 29 November 1922.Professor Kenneth A. Ballhatchet 1922–1995
by Peter Robb He was educated at

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, Bristol. He graduated from

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, where after an interruption for wartime service he received a first in Part II of the historical

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in 1947. Ballhatchet was appointed lecturer in history at

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in 1948, leaving there to take up a readership at the

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. He returned to SOAS as Professor of the History of South Asian in 1965, retiring in 1988. He is also listed as a contributor to the ''

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'' and the article on

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was largely written by him. He died on 13 March 1995. After his death a

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was published in his honour by Peter Robb.

Bibliography

His notable books include: * ''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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ballhatchet, Kenneth 1922 births 1995 deaths 20th-century English historians Historians of South Asia People from Bristol Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge People educated at Clifton College Academics of the University of London