Arthur Llewellyn Basham

Arthur Llewellyn Basham FAHA
Born	(1914-05-24)24 May 1914 Loughton, Essex, England
Died	27 January 1986(1986-01-27) (aged 71) Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Nationality	British
Education	School of Oriental and African Studies
Occupation(s)	Historian, Educationalist
Known for	noted historian and Indologist
Children	1

Arthur Llewellyn Basham FAHA (24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986) was a noted historian, Indologist and author of a number of books. As a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in the 1950s and the 1960s, he taught a number of famous historians of India, including professors Ram Sharan Sharma, Romila Thapar, and V. S. Pathak and Thomas R. Trautmann and David Lorenzen.