death_date death_place birth_place image_size relatives birth_date image article_title name occupation
29 june 1966 pune , maharashtra , india kosben -rrb- , portuguese india -lrb- present-day goa , india 175px dharmanand -rrb- kosambi -lrb- father -rrb- meera kosambi -lrb- daughter 31 july 1907 kosambi-dd . jpg damodar dharmananda kosambi
 d. d. kosambi mathematician and marxist historian
damodar dharmananda kosambi

damodar dharmananda kosambi -lrb- 31 july 1907 -- 29 june 1966 -rrb- was an indian mathematician , statistician , historian and polymath who contributed to genetics by introducing `` kosambi 's map function '' .
he is well known for his work in numismatics and for compiling critical editions of ancient sanskrit texts .
his father , dharmananda damodar kosambi , had studied ancient indian texts with a particular emphasis on buddhism and its literature in the pali language .
damodar kosambi emulated him by developing a keen interest in his country 's ancient history .
kosambi was also a marxist historian specialising in ancient india who employed the historical materialist approach in his work .
he is particularly known for his classic work `` an introduction to the study of indian history '' .
he is described as `` the patriarch of the marxist school of indian historiography '' .
kosambi was critical of the policies of then prime minister jawaharlal nehru , which , according to him , promoted capitalism in the guise of democratic socialism .
he was an enthusiast of the chinese revolution and its ideals , and , in addition , a leading activist in the world peace movement .
in the opinion of the historian irfan habib , `` d. d. kosambi and r.s. sharma , together with daniel thorner , brought peasants into the study of indian history for the first time . ''
