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'''Balkrishna Govind Gokhale''' (4 September 1919, in [[Dwarka]] – 11 August 2005) was an [[Indian Americans|Indian American]] anthropologist and historian, specialising in [[History of India|Indian history]] and [[Indian society|society]], best remembered for his books ''Ancient India History and Culture'' (1952), ''Indian Thought Through the Ages'' (1961), and ''Images of India'' (1971) on the subject. A graduate of the [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St. Xavier's College]] in [[Mumbai]] and the [[University of Bombay]], he was a professor of [[Asian studies]] at [[Wake Forest University]], and taught at [[Bowdoin College]], [[Oberlin College]], and the [[University of Washington, Seattle]]. He has also been widely cited as an expert in the field.<ref>{{cite web |title=Balkrishna Govind Gokhale Papers |url=https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/102030#:~:text=Balkrishna%20Govind%20Gokhale%20was%20born,from%20the%20University%20of%20Bombay. |website=wakespace.lib.wfu.edu |access-date=27 December 2023 |language=en |date=26 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Contributions to Asian Studies: 1973 |date=1 December 1973 |publisher=Brill Academic Publishers |isbn=978-90-04-03538-6 |page=20 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Chaghrai |first1=Mirza Saeed-Uz Zafar |title=Memoirs of Three Continents: I Tell You the Truth and Nothing but the Truth |date=20 October 2015 |isbn=978-1-4620-5638-5 |page=166 |publisher=iUniverse |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Spoelder |first1=Yorim |title=Visions of Greater India: Transimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.1800–1960 |date=23 November 2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-40316-0 |page=277 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sukthankar |first1=Vishnu Sitaram |title=On the Meaning of the Mahabharata |date=1 January 2016 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-1503-2 |page=7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kerkhoff |first1=Kathinka Sinha |title=Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760-1950) |date=2014 |publisher=PartridgeIndia |isbn=978-1-4828-3911-1 |page=38 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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