Susan Bayly is Professor Emerita of Historical Anthropology in the Cambridge University Department of Social Anthropology and a Life Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. She is a former editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Her research interests include the South Asian caste system. She was married to fellow Cambridge historian, Christopher Bayly, until his death in 2015.

To mark her retirement, and her scholarly works, former students and colleagues published a collected volume of essays in her honour 2023.

Works

  • Susan Bayly (May 2024). . Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-80539-500-3.
  • Susan Bayly (2007). . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86885-3.
  • Susan Bayly (22 February 2001). . The New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6.
  • Susan Bayly (1989). . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-37201-5.