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Pandey, Dr Bishwa Nath


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 PP MS 22

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Pandey, Dr Bishwa Nath

Date(s): Created 1930s-1980

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 8 boxes

Name of creator(s): Pandey | Bishwa Nath | 1929-1982 | Professor of modern Indian history and author

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Bishwa Nath Pandey ('Bish') was born on 30 October 1929, in the village of Bhatwalia, Deoria District, Uttar Pradesh, India. He read law at the University of Benares, but in 1955 decided to leave his legal practice in order to study Indian history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He joined the staff of the School as a lecturer in Modern Indian History in 1963 and became Reader in 1980.

He wrote a number of books including The Introduction of English Law into India (1964); a successful anthology, A Book of India (1964); The Break-Up of British India (1969), which established him as an authority on the Indian nationalist movement; and a biography of Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru (published in 1976). Subsequently, he turned his attention to the post 1947 period, and produced South and South East Asia, 1945-1979 (1980). At the time of his death in 1982, Dr. Pandey was working on a major study of the history of post-independence India.

He was married twice, with one daughter by his first marriage, and two daughters by his second. He died on 21 November 1982, shortly after chairing a public discussion on the new Columbia film Gandhi.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1930s-1980, of Dr Bishwa Nath Pandey, including his correspondence, photographs and notes, mainly relating to his book Nehru (1976), as well as early manuscript and typescripts drafts of the work itself.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1984.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Academic teaching personnel | Teachers | Educational personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Decolonization | Colonial countries | Political systems
Indian history | Asian history | National history
Photographs | Visual materials
Politicians | Political leadership | Internal politics
History

Personal names
Nehru | Jawaharlal | 1889-1964 | Prime Minister of India
Pandey | Bishwa Nath | 1929-1982 | Professor of modern Indian history and author

Corporate names

Places
India | South Asia