Editing Arthur Llewellyn Basham (section)

{{Short description|British historian and Indologist (1914–1986)}}
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| name               = Arthur Llewellyn Basham
| honorific_suffix   = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA|size=100%}}
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| birth_date         = {{birth date|1914|05|24|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Loughton]], [[Essex]], [[England]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1986|01|27|1914|05|24|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
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| nationality        = British
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| known_for          = noted historian and [[Indologist]]
| education          = [[School of Oriental and African Studies]]
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| occupation         = Historian, Educationalist
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| spouse             = Namita Catherine
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'''Arthur Llewellyn Basham''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} (24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986) was a British historian, [[Indologist]] and author. As a professor at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[London]] in the 1950s and the 1960s, he taught a number of famous historians of India, including professors [[Ram Sharan Sharma]], [[Romila Thapar]], and [[V. S. Pathak]] and [[Thomas R. Trautmann]] and [[David Lorenzen]].