Fw: H-ASIA: Maureen L. P. Patterson

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 3:22 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Maureen L. P. Patterson


> H-ASIA
> October 9, 2012
>
> Maureen L. P. Patterson
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> From: Frank Conlon
>
> I have just received the following post from James Nye of the
> University of Chicago Libraries conveying the news of the passing of
> Maureen L. P. Patterson. It is my hope that a more complete obituary
> will be prepared and posted on H-ASIA later this autumn. Maureen was
> a major figure in the history of South Asian studies in the United
> States--indeed, in the world. Her career was celebrated last year
> in Madison at the Annual Conference on South Asia in a panel
> constituted by Joe Elder, Lelah Dushkin, Michael Fisher and me.
> Maureen's contributions, including her bibliographic publications and
> her never completed study of Chitpavan Brahman family histories,
> should be known, particularly by younger members of the professional
> community, for she fought many battles that helped to create our field
> of South Asian studies as it prospers today. FFC
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> From: James Nye <jnye@uchicago.edu>
>
> Maureen's younger brother Bill called with the news of Maureen's
> passing. Would you please place the following on H-Asia?
>
> Bill said she'd had a very rapid decline over about 24 hours and
> passed away peacefully. You probably know she was in a nursing
> facility in Connecticut, not far from her older brother George, for
> the past nine years.
>
> Here is a brief statement:
>
> With sadness I convey word of the death of Maureen L. P. Patterson on
> September 25, 2012. She was renowned Bibliographer for Southern Asia
> and Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at the University of Chicago from
> 1958 through 1984.
>
> We have lost one of the world's great bibliographers as well as an
> intellectual and teacher of great rigor.
>
> Details will follow on her life and career. A memorial service will
> be held at the University of Chicago later in this academic year.
>
> James Nye
> Bibliographer for Southern Asia
> The University of Chicago Library
> 1100 E. 57th Street
> Chicago, IL 60637
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