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	'''John Garrard Burton-Page''' (19 December 1921 – 2005) was a British orientalist, Lecturer in the [[Indian art\|Art]] and [[Indian architecture\|Architecture of India]] at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS). He was an editor, and prolific contributor, to the Second Edition of the ''[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]'' between 1960 and 1995.		'''John Garrard Burton-Page''' (19 December 1921 – 2005) was a British orientalist, Lecturer in the [[Indian art\|Art]] and [[Indian architecture\|Architecture of India]] at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS). He was an editor, and prolific contributor, to the Second Edition of the ''[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]'' between 1960 and 1995.

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'''John Garrard Burton-Page''' (19 December 1921 – 2005) was a British orientalist, Lecturer in the [[Indian art|Art]] and [[Indian architecture|Architecture of India]] at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS). He was an editor, and prolific contributor, to the Second Edition of the ''[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]'' between 1960 and 1995.

Burton-Page's contributions to the ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'' fell into three main categories: Muslim sites and monuments; [[List of Muslim empires and dynasties|Muslim dynasties]]; and [[Islamic architecture|Islamic building typologies]].<ref>Review of ''Indian Islamic Architecture'', ''Journal of Islamic Studies'', 20: 3 (2009), pp.461–2</ref> These contributions were reprinted in a posthumous collection edited by his former student George Michell.

==Life==

John Burton-Page was born in [[Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex]]. Though he enrolled as a horn player at the [[Royal College of Music]], his study was interrupted by [[World War II]]. He served in [[India]] and [[Burma]], ending the war as a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the [[1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles]]. Having become fluent in [[Hindi language|Hindi]] and [[Nepali language|Nepali]], on return to England he entered as a mature student at [[Wadham College, Oxford]] to study [[Sanskrit]]. After graduating in 1950 he went to the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] as a Temporary Lecturer in Nepali. He stayed at SOAS for over three decades, later as a Lecturer and Reader in Hindi, becoming increasingly interested in Indo-Islamic history and architecture.<ref name="Burton-PageMichell2008">{{cite book|author1=John Burton-Page|author2=George Michell|title=Indian Islamic Architecture: Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDP_jlCYouAC&pg=PR9|accessdate=21 December 2012|year=2008|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-16339-3|page=9|chapter=John Burton-Page: An Introduction}}</ref> His final post was as Reader in the Art & Archaeology of South Asia, and he continued to write and teach for some years after his formal retirement.

==Works==
* 'The Name "Nepal"', ''[[Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies]]'' 16:3 (1954), p. 592-7.
* 'Two studies in Gungkura, 1. Tone; 2. Rhotacism and retroflexion', ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 17 (1954), p. 111-9.
* 'An analysis of the syllable in Boro', ''Indian Linguistics'' 16 (1956), pp. 334–44
* 'The syntax of participal forms in Hindi', ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 19 (1957), pp. 94–104.
* 'The charm of Indo-Islamic architecture, an introduction to the modern phase', ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 19 (1957), pp. 393–4.
* 'Compound and conjunct verbs in Hindi', ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 19 (1957), pp. 469–78.
* '"Aziz" and the sack of Swarka, a seventeenth century Hindi version', ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 21 (1957), pp. 145–57.
* 'Notes on two problems in Indo-Aryan', ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 21 (1957), pp. 174–8.
* 'The gender of loan-words in Hindi', ''Indian Linguistics'' 20 (1959), pp. 165–79
* 'A study of fortification in the Indian subcontinent from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century A.D.', ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 23 (1960), pp. 516–22.
* (ed.) ''Introduction to Nepali: a first-year language course'' by Thomas Welcourne Clark, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1977.
* 'An inscription from Ambur fort in the Victoria and Albert Museum', ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 49 (1986), pp. 174–8.
* (ed. George Michell) ''Indian Islamic architecture : forms and typologies, sites and monuments'', 2007.

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