Gordon Johnson (historian)

Gordon Johnson,

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

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]

• Johnson, Gordon (21 February 2008). University Politics: F. M. Cornford's Cambridge and His Advice to the Young Academic Politician. Cambridge:
  ISBN 978-0521723732. A commentary on Cornford's 1908 book Microcosmographia Academica
  .

External links

• Brief biography on Wolfson College website

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