Kenneth A. Ballhatchet (19 November 1922 – 13 March 1995) was a British historian and university professor.
Biography He was born in Bristol on 19 November 1922.Professor Kenneth A. Ballhatchet 1922–1995 by Peter Robb
He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. 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.
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. 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.
He died on 13 March 1995. After his death a Festschrift 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
References
External links Festschrift