Judith M. Brown
British historian
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Early life and education
Brown was born in India to the Rev Wilfred George Brown and Joan Margaret Adams. She was educated in Britain, arriving at Girton College, Cambridge to read History in 1962 and receiving her PhD from the same institution in 1968. She spent the next two years as a research fellow at Girton and then became a tutorial fellow before leaving in 1970.
Brown felt the call to ordination when she was young, before the ordination of women was allowed in the Anglican Communion. She was trained at Ripon College Cuddesdon.
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Career
From 1990 to 2011, she was the Beit Professor of Commonwealth History and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Earlier she taught at the University of Manchester. She retired from teaching in 2011. Brown published widely on the history of modern South Asia, but is especially known for her work on Gandhi.
She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2009 and as a priest in 2010. From 2009 to 2010, she served her curacy at St Frideswide's Church, Osney, in the Diocese of Oxford. Since 2014, she has been an associate priest of St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford. She served as interim chaplain to Brasenose College, Oxford in 2017; the first woman to serve as chaplain of the college.
Personal life
Brown married Peter Diggle in 1984.
Selected bibliography
- Brown, Judith M. (1972), Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915–1922. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Brown, Judith M. (1994), Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, Second Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 480., ISBN 0-19-873113-2
- Brown, Judith M.; Louis, Wm. Roger, eds. (2001), Oxford History of the British Empire: The Twentieth Century, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 800, ISBN 0-19-924679-3
- Brown, Judith M. (2005), Nehru: A Political Life, New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Pp. 416, ISBN 0-300-11407-9
- Brown, Judith M. (2006), Global South Asians: Introducing the modern Diaspora (New Approaches to Asian History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 216, ISBN 0-521-60630-6
- Brown, Judith M. (2008), Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics 1928-1934, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 436, ISBN 978-0-521-06695-2; 1st edition 1977
- Brown, Judith M.; Anthony Parel, eds. (2011), The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 294, ISBN 0-521-60630-6