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Name
  
Thomas Metcalf


Role
  
Historian

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Education
  
Harvard University (1960), Amherst College (1955)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
Ideologies of the Raj, Imperial connections, An Imperial Vision: Indian Ar, Forging the Raj, The aftermath of revolt

Thomas R. Metcalf (born 1934) is an historian of South Asia, especially colonial India, and of the British Empire. Metcalf is the Emeritus Sarah Kailath Professor of India Studies and Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 (2008), A Concise History of Modern India (with Barbara Metcalf, 2006), Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire (2005), Ideologies of the Raj (1997), and other books on the history of colonial India.

He was educated at Amherst College, the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.

References

Thomas R. Metcalf Wikipedia