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Eminent historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan passes away

Eminent historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan passed away due to COVID-19. He was internationally acclaimed for his work on Russian and European history and Indo-Russian relations.

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Vasudevan was the author of Shadows of Substance: Indo-Russian Trade and Military-Technical Cooperation (2010), and Footsteps of Afanasii Nikitin: Travels through Eurasia and India in the Early 21st Century (2015). He was an eminent scholar, UGC Emeritus Professor, Department of History and China Centre of Calcutta University as well as Ex-Director of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, an autonomous body under Ministry of Culture Govt of India.”

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