Hari Vasudevan
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. 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 to Methil Vasudevan who was an aeronautical engineer at Defence Science Organisation (in modern-day
Defence Research and Development Organisation). 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.
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