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Anthony Kennedy Warder (the 8th of September 1924 - the 8th of January 2013) was a British Indologist best known for Introduction to Pali (1963), Indian Buddhism (1970), and the eight-volume Indian Kavya Literature (1972-2011). He taught at the University of Edinburgh and later at the University of Toronto, where he chaired the Department of East Asian Studies.
Warder treated Pali as an independent language rather than a derivative of Sanskrit, which was considered a significant methodological departure at the time. He based the primer on extracts from the Digha Nikaya, one of the foundational collections of early Buddhist discourse.
Warder studied Sanskrit and Pali at the School of Oriental and African Studies and received his doctorate there in 1954. His thesis, supervised by John Brough, examined the evolution of early Middle Indian metre using verse preserved in the Pali Canon.
Indian Kavya Literature runs to eight volumes, published between 1972 and 2011, a span of nearly four decades. It is a comprehensive survey of the classical Sanskrit and Prakrit literary tradition.
Warder died on the 8th of January 2013, aged eighty-eight, of natural causes, almost simultaneously with his wife Nargez, who was ninety. They were buried together following a Buddhist service.
Studies on Buddhism in Honour of Professor A. K. Warder was published in 1993, three years after his retirement, edited by Narendra K. Wagle and Fumimaro Watanabe.