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'''Donald Anthony Low''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|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 Commonwealth History|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]].<ref name=ASSA>{{cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Anthony Low AO|url=http://www.assa.edu.au/fellowship/fellow/189|publisher=Academy of the social sciences in Australia | Fellowships|accessdate=21 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315005709/http://www.assa.edu.au/fellowship/fellow/189|archive-date=15 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Education ==
Low was born in 1927<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-6-22.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110623141401/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-6-22.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 23 June 2011 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=21 June 2014|date=22 June 2011|quote=Prof D.A. Low, President of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1987–94, 84 }}</ref> and gained his doctorate from [[Oxford University]].<ref name=Exeter>{{cite web|title=List of Honorary Fellows|url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/college/rectorandfellows/honorary|publisher=Exeter College, Oxford|accessdate=21 June 2014|quote=Prof Anthony Low - DPhil Oxf, FAHA, FASSA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618074430/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/college/rectorandfellows/honorary|archive-date=18 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Career highlights==
The academic positions which Professor Low has held include the following:<ref name=NUS />

*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

==Fellowships==
* Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] (FAHA)<ref>{{cite web|title=The Academy Fellows 'L'|url=http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/naaz-140/L/currentpage/2/Default.aspx|publisher=The Australian Academy of the Humanities|accessdate=21 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301202546/http://humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/naaz-140/L/currentpage/2/Default.aspx|archive-date=1 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Fellow of the [[Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia]] (FASSA)
* Fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]] (FRHistS)<ref name=NUS>{{cite web|title=Professor Donald Anthony Low Collection|url=http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/spcoll/dalow/index.htm|publisher=National University of Singapore | NUS Libraries|accessdate=21 June 2014}}</ref>
* Honorary Fellow of [[Exeter College, Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/college/rectorandfellows/honorary |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618074430/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/college/rectorandfellows/honorary |archive-date=18 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Selected bibliography==

=== Books ===
* {{cite book|last1=Low|first1=D.A.|title=Political parties in Uganda 1949-62|year=1962|publisher=Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Athlone Press|location=London|edition=1st}}
* {{cite book|last1=Low|first1=D.A. (editor)|title=Soundings in modern South Asian history|year=1968|publisher=University of California Press|location=California }}
* {{cite book | last = Low | first = D.A. | title = Lion rampant; essays in the study of British imperialism | publisher = Cass | location = London | year = 1973 | isbn = 9780714629865 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/lionrampant00dalo }}
* {{cite book | last=Low |first = D.A. (editor) |title=The Indian National Congress: Centenary Hindsights |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Delhi |year=1988 |ISBN=0195621425}}
* {{cite book | last = Low | first = D.A. | title = Eclipse of empire | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780521457545 }}
* {{cite book | last = Low | first = D.A. | title = The egalitarian moment: Asia and Africa, 1950-1980 | url = https://archive.org/details/egalitarianmomen0000lowd | url-access = registration | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521567657 }}
* {{cite book | last = Low | first = D.A. | title = Britain and Indian nationalism: the imprint of ambiguity, 1929-1942 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780521892612 }}
* {{cite book | last = Low | first = D.A. | title = Congress and the Raj: facets of the Indian struggle, 1917-47 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New Delhi Oxford | year = 2006 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 9780195683677 }}
* {{cite book | last = Low | first = D.A. | title = Fabrication of empire : the British and the Uganda kingdoms, 1890-1902 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, UK New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780521843515 }}

=== Chapters in books ===
* {{Citation | last = Low | first = D.A. | contribution = Congress and "mass contacts," 1936-1937: ideology, interests, and conflict over the basis of party representation | editor-last1 = Sisson | editor-first1 = Richard | editor-last2 = Wolpert | editor-first2 = Stanley| editor-link1=John Richard Sisson | editor-link2=Stanley Wolpert | title = Congress and Indian nationalism: the pre-independence phase | pages = 134–158 | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 1988 | isbn = 9780520060418 }}

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