THE JOINT CENTER FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
THE MANY WORLDS OF D.D. KOSAMBI
HARVARD CLASS OF 1929
Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 12:00pm
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street,
Room S-030
Refreshments will be provided
Historian, mathematician, Marxist, polymath, activist: D.D. Kosambi defied labels. With his fundamental contributions to differential geometry, genetics, statistics of coin hoards, Indian history, and Sanskrit poetry, Kosambi led a life whose story had many strands. In this talk, Ram Ramaswamy will trace how Kosambi's trajectory was shaped by his years at Harvard.
Ram Ramaswamy is visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry at IIT Delhi.