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Judith M. Brown

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Judith M. Brown
Born(1944-07-09)9 July 1944(age 80)
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Historian, academic,Anglicanpriest[1]
HonoursRaleigh Lecture on History(2012)[2]

Judith Margaret Brown(born 9 July 1944)[3]is a British historian, academic andAnglicanpriest, who specialises in the study of modernSouth Asia.From 1990 to 2011, she was theBeit Professor of Commonwealth Historyand aFellowofBalliol College, Oxford.[4]Earlier she taught at theUniversity of Manchesterand completed herPh.D.atGirton College, Cambridge.Brown was born in India but educated in Britain. She retired from teaching in 2011.[1]

Ordained ministry

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Brown felt thecall to ordinationwhen she was young, before theordination of womenwas allowed in the Anglican Communion.[5]Having trained atRipon College Cuddesdon,she wasordainedin theChurch of Englandas adeaconin 2009 and as apriestin 2010.[6]From 2009 to 2010, she served hercuracyatSt Frideswide's Church,Osney, in theDiocese of Oxford.[6]Since 2014, she has been an associate priest ofSt Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford.[5]She served as interim chaplain toBrasenose College, Oxfordin 2017; the first woman to serve as chaplain of the college.[6][7]

Selected bibliography

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  • Brown, Judith M. (2008),Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics 1928-1934,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 436,ISBN978-0-521-06695-2;1st edition 1977[8]
  • Brown, Judith M. (2006),Global South Asians: Introducing the modern Diaspora (New Approaches to Asian History),Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 216,ISBN0-521-60630-6
  • Brown, Judith M. (2005),Nehru: A Political Life,New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Pp. 416,ISBN0-300-11407-9
  • Brown, Judith M. (1994),Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, Second Edition,Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 480.,ISBN0-19-873113-2
  • 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,ISBN0-19-924679-3

See also

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References

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  1. ^ab"Professor Judith Brown".University of Oxford.Retrieved19 September2013.
  2. ^"Raleigh Lectures on History".The British Academy.textaudio
  3. ^"Birthdays".The Guardian.p. 35.
  4. ^"Judith Brown".Balliol College, Oxford.Archived fromthe originalon 21 September 2013.Retrieved19 September2013.
  5. ^ab"People: Associate Priest; The Revd Professor Judith M. Brown".St Mary Magdalen Church Oxford.Retrieved25 September2022.
  6. ^abc "Judith Margaret Brown".Crockford's Clerical Directory(online ed.).Church House Publishing.Retrieved25 September2022.
  7. ^"Brasenose Appoints our first female Chaplain".Brasenose College.University of Oxford. 2016.Retrieved25 September2022.
  8. ^Baker, Christopher (1977). "Review ofGandhi and Civil Disobedience: the Mahatma in Indian politics 1928–34by Judith M. Brown ".Modern Asian Studies.11(3): 469–473.doi:10.1017/S0026749X00014232.ISSN0026-749X.S2CID145133071.