Arthur Llewellyn Basham (24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986) was a British historian, Indologist and author. As a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in the 1950s and the 1960s, he taught a number of famous historians of India, including professors Nemai Sadhan Bose, Awadh Kishore Narain, Ram Sharan Sharma, Romila Thapar, Bratindra Nath Mukherjee , V. S. Pathak , S.K. Maity and Thomas R. Trautmann and David Lorenzen.