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Scholar played crucial role in emergence of South Asian studies in Australia and Singapore

Obituary Peter Reeves (1935–2015) Another pioneer of South Asian Studies in Australia died recently. Peter Reeves, Emeritus Professor of South Asian History at Curtin University and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, passed away in Perth on 24 February 2015—12 days after the death of Professor Donald Anthony Low. Peter Reeves was educated at […]

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Pioneer of India and South Asia studies inspired a generation of students

Obituary Donald Anthony Low (1927–2015) Anthony Low, the third president of the ASAA in 1981–2 and vice-chancellor of the Australian National University from 1975–82, died on 12 February in Canberra after a struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Born in Nanital in north India (his father was a missionary in Allahabad), Low was an outstanding scholar not

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