David Kopf
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David Kopf is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota
. A well-known research scholar on South Asian history, he has produced several books on the region. He has won the Guggenheim Fellowship at the University.
A Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago
, his first book, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance was one of the three books selected for the Watumull Prize as the best monograph on South Asia published in the US in 1969–70.
He was co-author with other writers of a book, Comparative History of Civilisation in South Asia in 1977. In between he published a major paper on The Problems of Modernisation in South Asia, published in the Duke University
anthology in 1970. He visited India and East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh) for two years in 1971–72 to study first hand the Brahmo Samaj
and published a book, The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind in 1979 by Princeton University Press
.
He has published numerous research papers, and lectured at the South Asian departments of many universities, including those in Australia. In the winter of 1984, Kopf was a visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calcutta
. In the same year he was invited as a delegate to the International Seminar commemorating the Bicentenary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Kolkata.
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
. A well-known research scholar on South Asian history, he has produced several books on the region. He has won the Guggenheim Fellowship at the University.
A Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, his first book, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance was one of the three books selected for the Watumull Prize as the best monograph on South Asia published in the US in 1969–70.
He was co-author with other writers of a book, Comparative History of Civilisation in South Asia in 1977. In between he published a major paper on The Problems of Modernisation in South Asia, published in the Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
anthology in 1970. He visited India and East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh) for two years in 1971–72 to study first hand the Brahmo Samaj
Brahmo Samaj
Brahmo Samaj is the societal component of the Brahmo religion which is mainly practiced today as the Adi Dharm after its eclipse in Bengal consequent to the exit of the Tattwabodini Sabha from its ranks in 1859. It was one of the most influential religious movements responsible for the making of...
and published a book, The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind in 1979 by Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
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He has published numerous research papers, and lectured at the South Asian departments of many universities, including those in Australia. In the winter of 1984, Kopf was a visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calcutta
University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta is a public university located in the city of Kolkata , India, founded on 24 January 1857...
. In the same year he was invited as a delegate to the International Seminar commemorating the Bicentenary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Kolkata.