Gordon Johnson (historian)
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Biography
Born on 13 September 1943, Johnson was educated at Richmond School in North Yorkshire and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a fellow at Trinity from 1966 to 1974, and at Selwyn College from 1974 to 1993. He was appointed as a lecturer in Oriental studies at the University of Cambridge in 1974, remaining in that position until 2005.[1]
He was the President of Wolfson College, Cambridge, from 1993 to 2010, and is now an honorary fellow of the college.[2] He was the Director of the Cambridge University Centre of South Asian Studies from 1983 to 2001, and had been a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the university from 2002 to 2010.[1]
Gordon served as the first Provost of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship Trust from 2000 to 2010.
He was chair of the Syndicate governing Cambridge University Press from 1981 to 2010.[1] In 2009-2010 he was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography and lectured on "From printer to publisher: Cambridge University Press transformed, 1950 to 2010."[3]
He was the President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2015 to 2018 and is currently serving as the Vice President.[4]
He is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of India, published in 1979.[1] This is a series of self-contained volumes covering various aspects and themes of India's past.
Select publications
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His publications include Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism, A Cultural Atlas of India, and University Politics: F M Cornford’s Cambridge and his advice to the young academic politician.[5]
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References
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External links
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- 20th-century British historians
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- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Historians of South Asia
- Honorary Fellows of Selwyn College, Cambridge
- Institute directors
- Living people
- Presidents of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Presidents of Wolfson College, Cambridge