Fw: H-ASIA: Andrew Major

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: Andrew Major

> H-ASIA
> August 19, 2011
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> Andrew Major
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> From: Brian Stoddart <b.stoddart@bigpond.com>
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> With reference to the posting on the death of Andrew Major:
>
> This is very sad news, indeed, the latest of recent losses to South
> Asianist ranks in Australia and New Zealand. It was only very
> recently that Andrew and I were in email correspondence on a number of
> matters South Asian. A couple of years behind me at Canterbury,
> Andrew and I both were beneficiaries of the exemplary small-class
> teaching genius of Ian Catanach who also sadly left us a couple of
> years ago. Ian gave his students a love of the archives and of
> detail, along with the "personal" angle of individual lives at a time
> when the "big sweep" of history was in vogue.
>
> Andrew developed his interest in the Punjab under that approach, and
> it never left him as a scholar. Ian's own wide interests also passed
> on to his students. Andrew told me, for example, that while in
> Cambodia he had collected a lot of material on the lives of those in a
> particular village under the Khmer Rouge. He found it saddening, a
> mark of his humanity, but was resolved to return to the subject simply
> so that those lives might be remembered. So will we remember Andrew,
> a very talented historian indeed.
>
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> Professor Brian Stoddart
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> Just published:
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> A People's Collector In The British Raj: Arthur Galletti
> New Delhi: Readworthy Publications, 2011
> www.readworthypub.com/index.php?p=sr+Uc=9789350180419
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> Recently Published
> Land, Water, Language and Politics in Andhra: Regional Evolution in India
> New Delhi: Routledge, 2011
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> Appearing Soon
> India and Australia: Bridging Different Worlds
> edited with Auriol Weigold
> New Delhi: Readworthy Publications, 2011
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