Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, a British historian specialising in British, Indian and world imperial history, was Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies and was a Fellow of St. Catharine's College. As a leading scholar of Indian history, he divulged an exceptional understanding of the comparative history of empires that he reveals in his works and publications. In Siglo XXI de España he has published El nacimiento del mundo moderno.