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Hari Vasudevan
![Professor Vasudevan taking a class at the Dept. of Modern History, [[University of Calcutta]], December 2017.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Professor_H._S._Vasudevan_taking_a_class.jpg)
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. Provided by Wikipedia
Memories of a Malabar Lady : M. Sreekumari Vasudevan's Reminiscences of Life with Justice K.S. Menon 1926-1956 /
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Memories of a Malabar Lady: M. Sreekumari Vasudevan's Reminiscences of Life with Justice K.S. Menon, 1926-1956 , emerged from conversations between a mother and son spanning a decade. It recalls Sreekumari Vasudevan's early life in the company of her father, K.S. Menon, whose career in the law took them from Mamballikalam, the matrilineal family estate in Malabar, to Madras, other places in Madras Presidency, and the princely state of Jodhpur. It is a story of smaller units and individuals in a sprawling joint family and a young woman's widening arc of experience. The book is remarkable for how Hari Vasudevan combines the skills of a professional historian and the empathy of a son to fashion the story of an era through the personal, modest and smaller scenes of historical change. This book was in manuscript form when Hari passed away, and was finalized for publication by Ravi Vasudevan.
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1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
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