Gordon Johnson is a Cambridge historian who has taught and studied modern Indian history. He was President of Wolfson College, Cambridge, from 1993 to 2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and has served two terms as the Society’s President.
He edited Modern Asian Studies from 1971 to 2008 and was General Editor of the New Cambridge History of India. His publications include Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism (1973); A Cultural Atlas of India (1995); and University Politics: F M Cornford’s Cambridge and his advice to the young academic politician (1994).
He is currently writing about Cambridge University Press in the twentieth century.
