Charles Roskelly Bawden is Emeritus Professor of Mongolian

Mongolian language

The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner...

 in the University of London.
From 1955 to 1984, he was a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

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 (SOAS) at the University of London

University of London

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He has written on Mongolian history and literature, and has published a Mongolian-English dictionary that is often cited as the most comprehensive available.
John Man

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 was his student.

In addition to having been elected a Fellow of the British Academy

British Academy

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, he was also awarded the Order of the Pole Star by the Mongolian government.
He donated his books to the Ancient India & Iran Trust, Cambridge University.

Works

• The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobci. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1955.
• The Jebtsundamba Khutukhtus of Urga; text, translation, and notes. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1961.
• The Modern History of Mongolia. New York: Praeger, 1968.
• Shamans, Lamas, and Evangelicals: The English Missionaries in Siberia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
• Confronting the Supernatural: Mongolian Traditional Ways and Means. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994.
• Mongolian-English dictionary. London: K. Paul International, 1997.
• Mongolian Traditional Literature: An Anthology. London: Kegan Paul, 2003.