OSIPOV, Aleksandr Mihajlovič. Karsunsk. u. Simbirsk. gub. 11.(23.)8.1897 — 19.2.1969. Russian Historian of India. Son of a farmer. Graduated 1926 from Moscow. Kand. ist. nauk 1942, Docent 1942, Professor 1963. In 1932-36 naučnyj sotrudnik at International Agrarian Institute. Taught at Moscow Oriental Institute in 1926-35 and from 1936 at Moscow University, in 1961-69 with chair of Indian History.

Publications: More than 100 publications, i.al.:

– Kratkij očerk istorii Indii do X veka. 98 p. M. 1948, German tr. 102 p. B. 1954.

– With V. A. Aleksandrov & N. M. Gol’dberg: Afanasij Nikitin i ego vremja. 191 p. M. 1951, 2nd ed. 216 p. M. 1956.

– Much on colonial and modern history, e.g. Velik. vosstanie v Indii 1857–1859 gg. 143 p. M. 1957.

Sources: *K. A. Antonova & L. B. Alaev, Slovo Učiteljah: Mosk. vostokovedy 30-60-h godov. M. 1988, 200-217; *NAA 1969:3, 230-232; Miliband 1995.