I am sorry to have to inform you of the sad passing, on July 30th, of  my old friend and colleague Professor Pratipal Bhatia,  historian of early and medieval India and a specialist in Indian numismatics.  I came to know her in the 1960-s when she was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Pennsylvania where I was  doing my graduate studies and we met many times after that in Delhi  and California. She was a kindly and generous person both with her hospitality and her considerable knowledge of early Indian coinage.

She published a useful monograph on the Paramāras based on her Delhi University PhD and a number of of articles on  the Bull/Horseman Coins of he Sultans of Ghazna and Sassanian coins found in India in addition to papers on coin collections in Indian museums. She was  a faculty member of Delhi University’s Department of History and served for some years as its Head.   

Pratipal never married and is survived by a number of siblings. Her Antim Ardas will be performed this coming August 10th. She will be missed by her friends and colleagues.