10 Facts About Christopher Bayly

Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, FBA, FRSL was a British historian specialising in British Imperial, Indian and global history.

Christopher Bayly studied at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Christopher Bayly then remained at the University of Oxford and undertook post-graduate study at St Antony's College, Oxford.

Christopher Bayly was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 2013.

Christopher Bayly became the Director of Cambridge's Centre of South Asian Studies.

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Christopher Bayly was co-editor of The New Cambridge History of India and sat on the editorial board of various academic journals.

Christopher Bayly served on the inaugural Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009.

Christopher Bayly died in Hyde Park, Chicago, on 18 April 2015, a month before his 70th birthday.

Christopher Bayly was in his second and last year as the Vivekananda Visiting Professor when he died.

In 2016, Christopher Bayly became the first person to be posthumously awarded the Toynbee Prize for global history.