Leonard Abraham Gordon is a historian of South Asia, especially of Bengal, whose 1990 book Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalist Leaders Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose is considered the definitive biography of Subhas Chandra Bose.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Education and career
Gordon graduated from Amherst College,[1] and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.Template:Sfn He was a professor of history at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and has emeritus status there now. He was also the director of the Southern Asia Institute at Columbia University.
Gordon's revised Harvard dissertation,Template:Sfn Bengal: the Nationalist Movement won the (now discontinued) biennial Watumull Prize of the American Historical Association in 1974, a prize recognizing "the best book on the history of India originally published in the United States."[2] Gordon has been praised for his "narration of political events."Template:Sfn
Bibliography
- A Syllabus of Indian Civilization. Columbia University Press.
- Bengal: the Nationalist Movement, 1876–1940. Columbia University Press(January 1974).
- Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalist Leaders Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose. Columbia University Press.
See also
Notes
- ↑ Index to the Amherst Alumni News and Amherst Magazine: Volumes 1-56, 1949-2004. Amherst College Library: Archival and Special Collections.
- ↑ Discontinued Awards: Watumull Prize (1946–1982). American Historical Association.
References
- Encounters with Fascism and National Socialist in non-European Regions: Review of five books 1. Sugata Bose, His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle Against Empire, 2011; 2. .... Sudasien-Seminar der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.
- [{{{url}}} Review of Bengal: The Nationalist Movement, 1876-1940 by Leonard A Gordon].
- Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: Politics, Intelligence and Propaganda 1941-1943. Oxford University Press.
- [{{{url}}} Review of :Brothers against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose by Leonard A. Gordon].
- [{{{url}}} Review of: Brothers against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose by Leonard A. Gordon].
- [{{{url}}} Review of His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire, by Sugata Bose, 2011](Summer 2013).
- [{{{url}}} Review of Sugata Bose. His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle Against Empire].