Gordon Johnson | |
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Born | 13 September 1943 |
Nationality | British |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
School or tradition | Cambridge School of historiography |
Institutions | Wolfson College, Cambridge |
Main interests |
Colonial India University of Cambridge |
Gordon Johnson, FRAS (born 1943) is a British historian of colonial India.
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] He served as the first Provost of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship Trust from 2000 to 2010, and as chair of the Syndicate governing Cambridge University Press from 1981 to 2010. [1] 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. [3]
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.
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Dr. Johnson was an editor for the journal Modern Asian Studies from 1978 to 2008. 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. [4]