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A. K. Warder was an English scholar and professor of Indian studies. He was born in England on 8 September 1924. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Oriental Studies in 1948. He then went on to pursue a PhD in Indian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Warder was a professor of Indian Studies at the University of Toronto from 1965 to 1989. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Warder was a prolific author, having written over 20 books on Indian philosophy, religion, and literature. His most famous works include Indian Buddhism (1970), Outline of Indian Philosophy (1980), and Indian Kavya Literature (1993). Warder was a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Fellow of the British Academy. He was also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian honors. At the time of his death in 2013, Warder was 89 years old. He was unmarried and had no children. His net worth at the time of his death is unknown.

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 8 September, 1924
Birthday 8 September
Birthplace England
Date of death (2013-01-08) Toronto, Canada
Died Place Toronto, Canada
Nationality India

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2013

He and his wife, Nargez, died of natural causes almost simultaneously on 8 January 2013. He was eighty-eight, and she was ninety. They had no children. They were buried together following a Buddhist service.

1993

Studies on Buddhism in Honour of Professor A. K. Warder was published in 1993, edited by Narendra K. Wagle and Fumimaro Watanabe.

1963

For a number of years, he was an active member of the Pali Text Society, which published his first book, Introduction to Pali, in 1963. He based this popular primer on extracts from the Dīgha Nikāya, and took the then revolutionary step of treating Pali as an independent language, not just a derivative of Sanskrit.

1955

His began his academic career at the University of Edinburgh in 1955, but in 1963 moved to the University of Toronto. There, as Chairman of the Department of East Asian Studies, he built up a strong programme in Sanskrit and South Asian studies. He retired in 1990.

1954

He studied Sanskrit and Pali at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and received his doctorate from there in 1954. His thesis, supervised by John Brough, was entitled Pali Metre: A Study of the Evolution of Early Middle Indian Metre Based on the Verse Preserved in the Pali Canon. (When it was published in 1967, the title was changed to Pali Metre: A Contribution to the History of Indian Literature.)

1924

Anthony Kennedy Warder (8 September 1924 – 8 January 2013) was a British Indologist. His best-known works are Introduction to Pali (1963), Indian Buddhism (1970), and the eight-volume Indian Kāvya Literature (1972–2011).