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Professor Vasudevan taught Russian and European history at Calcutta University, was Director of MAKAIAS (2007–2012), was UGC Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata. He was member of many committees set up by the Government of India and was Chairperson of the Textbook Development Committee for the Social Sciences at the NCERT. He had teaching assignments in many foreign universities, including Cornell, King’s College, Kiev, Uppsala and Dagon University. He was appointed as Professor in 2002/2003 in the newly set up Central Asian Studies unit at the Academy of Third World Studies (renamed in 2011 as the Academy of International Studies) in Jamia Millia Islamia. This Central Asia Studies unit was set up by Mr Shahid Mehdi (then Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Isalmia) and Prof Mushirul Hasan (then Director of the Academy). Prof Vasudevan was Director of the Academy from 2004–2005. He left Jamia Millia Islamia in 2005 and returned to Calcutta University, although he remained close to us at the Academy and came whenever invited to participate in the numerous conferences and workshops we organise.