Anthony Low

Anthony Low AO FAHA FASSA FRHistS
Born	Donald Anthony Low (1927-06-22)22 June 1927 British India
Died	12 February 2015(2015-02-12) (aged 87) Canberra, Australia
Alma mater	Oxford University
Partner(s)	Belle

Donald Anthony Low AO (22 June 1927 – 12 February 2015), known as Anthony Low or D. A. Low, was a historian of modern South Asia, Africa, the British Commonwealth, and, especially, decolonization. He was the Emeritus Smuts Professor of History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Cambridge, former Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge.^[1]

Education

Low was born in 1927^[2] and gained his doctorate from Oxford University.^[3]

The academic positions which Professor Low has held include the following:^[4]

Founding Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex, 1968–1971
Dean, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), Australian National University, 1973–1974
Vice Chancellor, Australian National University, Canberra, 1975–1982
Smuts Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth, University of Cambridge, 1983–1994
President, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 1987–1994

Low, D.A. (1962). Political parties in Uganda 1949-62 (1st ed.). London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Athlone Press.
Low, D.A. (editor) (1968). Soundings in modern South Asian history. California: University of California Press.
Low, D.A. (1973). Lion rampant; essays in the study of British imperialism. London: Cass. ISBN 9780714629865.
Low, D.A. (editor) (1988). The Indian National Congress: Centenary Hindsights. Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195621425.
Low, D.A. (1991). Eclipse of empire. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521457545.
Low, D.A. (1996). The egalitarian moment: Asia and Africa, 1950-1980. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521567657.
Low, D.A. (1997). Britain and Indian nationalism: the imprint of ambiguity, 1929-1942. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521892612.
Low, D.A. (2006). Congress and the Raj: facets of the Indian struggle, 1917-47 (2nd ed.). New Delhi Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195683677.
Low, D.A. (2009). Fabrication of empire : the British and the Uganda kingdoms, 1890-1902. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521843515.

Low, D.A. (1988), "Congress and "mass contacts," 1936-1937: ideology, interests, and conflict over the basis of party representation", in Sisson, Richard; Wolpert, Stanley, Congress and Indian nationalism: the pre-independence phase, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 134–158, ISBN 9780520060418

↑ "Emeritus Professor Anthony Low AO". Academy of the social sciences in Australia | Fellowships. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
↑ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2014. Prof D.A. Low, President of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1987–94, 84
↑ "List of Honorary Fellows". Exeter College, Oxford. Retrieved 21 June 2014. Prof Anthony Low - DPhil Oxf, FAHA, FASSA
1 2 "Professor Donald Anthony Low Collection". National University of Singapore | NUS Libraries. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
↑ "The Academy Fellows 'L'". The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
↑ http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/college/rectorandfellows/honorary

Academic offices
Preceded by Robert Williams	Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University 1975–1982	Succeeded by Peter Karmel
Preceded by Eric Thomas Stokes	Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University 1983–1994	Succeeded by A.G. Hopkins

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 105448111 LCCN: n50038879 ISNI: 0000 0001 1496 6285 SUDOC: 030414644 BNF: cb121832801 (data)

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