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100			_aRam Ramaswamy
245			_aD D KOSAMBI : One Life, Many Worlds
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260			_aNew Delhi _bFourth Estate India _c2026/01/01
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500			_aFrom 1929 to 1966, D.D. Kosambis scholarship in the fields of mathematics, historiography, numismatics and statistics caused ripples across the world. From his pioneering translations of Bhartrihari to his revolutionary reinterpretations of Indian history in landmark books, the intellectual heft and range of Kosambis mind was truly astounding. Sixty years after his passing, however, he is quoted more often than he is read and praised more often than he is analysed—his legacy expunged from administrative records and fading from public memory. Ram Ramaswamys definitive biography of Kosambi seeks to correct this lapse. Drawing from letters and journal entries, family accounts and unprecedented archival material, he presents before us a man of multitudes—fearless and independent on the one hand, plagued by a restless curiosity on the other. D.D. Kosambi: One Life, Many Worlds not only mines the incandescent, if troubled, mind of a genius, whose pursuits were informed by a family and a nation of towering personalities, but also revives an era of fascinating political, scientific and historiographical transformation in the subcontinent....
650			_aBiograpgy
650			_aD D Kosambi
650			_aHistorian
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