Balkrishna Govind Gokhale (4 September 1919, in Dwarka – 11 August 2005) was an Indian American anthropologist and historian, specialising in Indian history and society, best remembered for his books Ancient India History and Culture (1952), Indian Thought Through the Ages (1961), and Images of India (1971) on the subject. A graduate of the St. Xavier's College in Mumbai and the University of Bombay, he was a professor of Asian studies at Wake Forest University, and taught at Bowdoin College, Oberlin College, and the University of Washington, Seattle. He has also been widely cited as an expert in the field.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
References
edit- ^ "Balkrishna Govind Gokhale Papers". wakespace.lib.wfu.edu. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ Contributions to Asian Studies: 1973. Brill Academic Publishers. 1 December 1973. p. 20. ISBN 978-90-04-03538-6.
- ^ Chaghrai, Mirza Saeed-Uz Zafar (20 October 2015). Memoirs of Three Continents: I Tell You the Truth and Nothing but the Truth. iUniverse. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-4620-5638-5.
- ^ Spoelder, Yorim (23 November 2023). Visions of Greater India: Transimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.1800–1960. Cambridge University Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-009-40316-0.
- ^ Sukthankar, Vishnu Sitaram (1 January 2016). On the Meaning of the Mahabharata. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 7. ISBN 978-81-208-1503-2.
- ^ Kerkhoff, Kathinka Sinha (2014). Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760-1950). PartridgeIndia. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4828-3911-1.
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