Susan Bayly[1] is Professor Emerita of Historical Anthropology[2] in the Cambridge University Department of Social Anthropology[3] and a Life Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.[4] She is a former editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.[4]

Her research interests include the South Asian caste system.[3][5] She was married to fellow Cambridge historian, Christopher Bayly, until his death in 2015.[1]

To mark her retirement, and her scholarly works, former students and colleagues published a collected volume of essays in her honour 2023.[6][7]

Works

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  • Susan Bayly (May 2024). Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-80539-500-3.
  • Susan Bayly (2007). Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age: Vietnam, India and Beyond. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86885-3.
  • Susan Bayly (22 February 2001). Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age. The New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6.
  • Susan Bayly (1989). Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-37201-5.

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