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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1934|08|15}}<ref name=newsminute>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/incomplete-spring-life-and-death-abraham-eraly|title=An Incomplete Spring: The Life and Death of Abraham Eraly|last=S.|first=Ramanathan|publisher=The News Minute|date=14 April 2015}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Ayyampalli]], [[Kerala]]
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| alma_mater = [[Madras Christian College]]<ref name=hinduobit>{{cite news|newspaper=The Hindu|title=Abraham Eraly dead|date=14 April 2015|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/abraham-eraly-dead/article7100187.ece|access-date=4 October 2018}}</ref>
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| notableworks = ''The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors''
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'''Abraham Eraly''' (15 August 1934 — 8 April 2015) was an Indian writer of history, a teacher, and the founder of [[Chennai]]-based magazine ''[[Aside (magazine)|Aside]]''.

==Early life==
Abraham Eraly was born in the village of [[Ayyampalli]] in [[Ernakulam district]], [[Kerala]] on 15 August 1934.<ref name=newsminute/> He studied history at a college in [[Ernakulam]] and followed it up with a postgraduate degree in the same subject at [[Madras Christian College]] in Chennai.<ref name=newsminute/> He became a professor of history at MCC in 1971.<ref name=newsminute/>

Bored with the monotony of teaching,<ref name=muthiah>{{cite news|title=An author who deserved better|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/an-author-who-deserved-better/article7119913.ece|last=Muthiah|first=S.|authorlink=S. Muthiah|work=The Hindu|date=20 April 2015|access-date=20 April 2015}}</ref> Eraly resigned his professorship in 1977 and founded the [[Chennai]]-based magazine ''Aside'', India's first English-language city magazine. Following financial difficulties, it closed in 1997.<ref name="Lakshmi2004">{{cite encyclopedia|editor-last=Lakshmi|editor-first=C. S.|encyclopedia=The Unhurried City: Writings on Chennai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnflUVu0w2QC&pg=PA41|title=A Voice from Aside|last=Venkatraman|first=Janaki|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-303026-3|page=41}}</ref>

==Literary career==
Eraly's earliest publications were poems and short stories.<ref name=hindu2001>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|last=Varma|first=Shreekumar|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/05/17/stories/13171291.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150417224204/http://www.thehindu.com/2001/05/17/stories/13171291.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2015|date=17 May 2001|title=Pages from his story}}</ref>

Abraham Early in an interview with journalist and author, talks to Shreekumar Varma says:
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History is about life. You can't invent even the minutest fact, but there is scope for visualising what had happened.<ref name=hindu2001/>}}

His historical writing career started while at Madras Christian College.<ref name=newsminute/> Dissatisfied with the material he used to teach history, he began to write a series of books on Indian history.<ref name=hindu2001/> The ''Gem in the Lotus'' covered its earliest period, while ''The Last Spring'' continued the narration to the end of the [[Mughal Empire]]. Eraly's style of historical story-telling made him particularly approachable for non-historians but could also be used as a reliable source on the Mughal period in India.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Imtiaz |first1=Ahmad |title=Sectional President's Address: Cultural Interests and Contributions of the Mughal Nobility |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=2010 |volume=71 |pages=192–212}}</ref>

==Later life==
In 2011, Eraly moved to [[Pondicherry]], where he lived in Sarathambal Nagar.<ref name=newsminute/>

Abraham Eraly died at the [[Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research|JIPMER]] hospital on 8 April 2015, following a paralytic attack.<ref name=newsminute/>

==Bibliography==

===Non-fiction===
* ''[https://www.bookchor.com/book/9780143422266/Age-of-Wrath The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate]'', 2014, Penguin UK, {{ISBN|935118658X}}
* ''[https://www.bookchor.com/book/9780143424574/The-First-Spring-Part-I:-Life-in-the-Golden-Age-of-India The First Spring: The Golden Age of India]'', 2011, Penguin Books India, {{ISBN|0670084786}}
* ''[https://www.bookchor.com/book/9780143424567/Gem-In-the-Lotus:-The-Seeding-of-Indian-Civilization Gem In The Lotus: The Seeding Of Indian Civilisation]'', 2002, Penguin UK, {{ISBN|935118014X}}
* ''[https://www.bookchor.com/book/9780143424543/The-Last-Spring-Part-I:-The-Saga-of-the-Great-Mughals The Last Spring: The Lives and Times of Great Mughals]'', 2000, Penguin UK, {{ISBN|9351181286}}
**''[https://www.bookchor.com/book/9780143424543/The-Last-Spring-Part-I:-The-Saga-of-the-Great-Mughals The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors]'', 2004, Phoenix {{ISBN|9780753817582}}
**''[https://www.bookchor.com/book/9780143424550/The-Last-Spring-Part-II:-Life-in-Indias-Last-Golden-Age The Mughal world : life in India's last golden age]'', 2007, Penguin Books, {{ISBN|9780143102625}}

Many of his books were divided and re-published under different names leading to multiple titles. ''[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587302.The_Last_Spring The Last Spring: The Lives and Times of Great Mughals]'' was re-published in two parts: ''[https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/680349-mughal-throne-the-saga-of-india-s-great-emperors The Last Spring Part I]'' (alternatively known as ''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/694024.The_Mughal_Throne The Mughal Throne]'' and ''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155153.Emperors_Of_The_Peacock_Throne Emperors Of The Peacock Throne]'') and ''[https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/47288217-the-mughal-world The Last Spring Part II]'' (alternatively known as ''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2676313-the-mughal-world The Mughal World]'').

===Fiction===
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=dA0IasMjakQC Night of the Dark Tree: A Novel]'', 2006, Penguin Books India, {{ISBN|0143061836}}
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=5Vhs1bJQIQMC Tales Once Told: Legends of Kerala]'', 2006, Penguin Books India, {{ISBN|014309968X}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.outlookindia.com/people/3/AbrahamEraly/5736 Abraham Eraly's articles for Outlook India]

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