Eugene F. Irschick

Eugene F. Irschick
Born	Eugene F. Irschick 1934 (1934) Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, British India
Died	10 November 2022(2022-11-10) (aged 87–88) El Dorado Hills,California,USA
Occupation	Historian
Years active	1964–2015

Eugene F. Irschick was an American historian. He was born in Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu, India) in 1934, ^[1] the son of Lutheran missionaries. He was a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1978. He died on November 10, 2022 in El Dorado Hills, California ^[2]

Biography

Irschick, a 1951 graduate of the Kodaikanal School, earned his B.A. Honors in History with minor in Religion and Greek from Gettysburg College in 1955 and later a M.A. in South Asia Regional Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. He subsequently did his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964. ^[3]

Works

• Eugene F. Irschick; University of California, Berkeley. Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies (1969). Politics and Social Conflict in South India: The Non-Brahman Movement and Tamil Separatism, 1916-1929 . University of California Press. GGKEY:X5KJTZKJXZU.
• Eugene F. Irschick (1 January 1986). Tamil revivalism in the 1930s. Cre-A. ISBN   9780836419184.
• Eugene F. Irschick (5 April 1994). Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-91432-2.
• Eugene F. Irschick (20 July 2015). A History of the New India: Past and Present. Routledge. ISBN   9780415435796.

References

1. Barnett, Richard. "Remembering Professor Gene Irschick: A Tribute by Richard Barnett" . Retrieved 25 March 2025.
2. Carson, Kathryn. "Eugene F. Irschick (1934 - 2022)". Department of History. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
3. "Eugene F. Irschick". Archived from the original on 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2016-06-07.