[INDOLOGY] Professor Leonid B. Alaev (1932-2023)

[Dominik Wujastyk]

My condolences to you, dear Alexander, and to Russian Indology for the loss
of such a light.

Sincerely,
Dominik

On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 at 03:56, Alexander Stolyarov <astol007 at gattamelata.com>
wrote:

> Professor Leonid B. Alaev passed away yesterday on Mon. Jul. 31, 2023. He
> was 90.
>
> He was the leading Russian Indologist, specialist on mediaeval Indian
> history. His keen interest was Indian village community. He was the
> successive critic of Marx theory. He was the author of dozens of monographs
> and articles on theoretical and applied aspects of Indian history from
> ancient till modern times. He was one of the authors of ‘The Cambridge
> Economic History of India. Vol. 1: c. 1200 – c. 1750. Eds. Tapan
> Raychaudhury and Irfan Habib’.
>
> He was my teacher and friend.
>
> Alexander Stolyarov
>
>
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