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Peter W. Fay, professor of history, emeritus, died January 18 at his home in Sierra Madre after a long illness. He was 79. |
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Fay, an authority on China and India, was a member of the Caltech faculty from 1955 until his retirement in 1997. He earned his bachelor�s de-gree (interrupted by service in Italy during World War II) from Harvard in 1947, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and returned to Harvard for his PhD (1954). |
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Among his books were The Opium War, 1840�1842, which won several prizes following its publication in 1975, and The Forgotten Army: India�s Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942�1945 (see E&S, Spring 1994). Two years at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur in the �60s, where he helped the humanities program, had shaped his interest in and love for Indian history. |
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He is survived by his wife, Mariette Robertson Fay; sons Todor, Jonathan, and Benjamin; daughters Jennifer and Lisa Fay Matthiessen; and seven grandchildren. A memorial service is planned.
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