https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/paul-brass-scholar-identity-politics-violence-northern-india-7950886/

Christophe Jaffrelot writes: Paul brass, like some of his contemporaries, Myron Weiner, Lloyd Rudolph and Susan Hoeber Rudolph, played a pioneering role in the study of India.

How can I do justice to Paul Brass’s contribution to Indian studies in a thousand words? First of all, perhaps, by mentioning my first meeting with him — simply because it is revealing of his generosity (when he is said to be better known for his cantankerous nature). It was 1987. We were in Paris – where he had been invited by the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – and I had just started my PhD. He not only spent two hours with a 23-year-old non-initiated doctoral student but gave me key information, including the address of Bruce Graham, the then best specialist on the Jana Sangh whom I was to visit a few months later in Brighton — and who finally supervised my thesis. Many colleagues have similar stories to tell.