Dear Colleagues, 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. Dr. R.P. Goldman William and Catherine Magistretti Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
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