BURTON-PAGE, John Garrard. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 19.9.1921 — Church Knowle, Dorset 13.6.2005. British Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar and Historian). Music studies (horn) at Royal College of Music were interrupted after one term through war service in India and Burma, learned now Hindi and Nepali and after war studied from 1946 Sanskrit at Oxford (Wadham College). B.A. 1950 and M.A. 1953 Oxford. From 1950 taught Nepali, Hindi, from 1966 also art and archaeology at S.O.A.S. as Lecturer, then 1971 Reader. In 1958-59 one year further studies at Deccan College, then several further trips to India. Retired 1982 and moved to Church Knowle in Dorset. After 1994 a stroke severely restricted his activity. Married Audrey R. Marley (1916–1989), three sons.
Publications: Articles and reviews; in 1960-95 one of the editors and active contributor of the Encyclopedia of Islam.
– “The name ‘Nepal’”, BSOAS 16, 1954, 592-597;“ Two studies in Gungkura”, BSOAS 17, 1954, 111-119; ”An analysis of the syllable in Boro”, Indian Linguistics 16, 1956, 334-344.
– “The syntax of participal forms in Hindi’, BSOAS 19, 1957, 94-104; “Compound and conjunct verbs in Hindi”, BSOAS 19, 1957, 469-478; “The gender of loan-words in Hindi”, Indian Linguistics 20, 1959, 165-179.
– “‘Azīz’ and the sack of Dvārkā: A seventeenth century Hindī version”, BSOAS 20 (Turner Vol.), 1957, 144-157.
– “Muslim graves of the ‘lesser tradition’: Gilgit, Puniāl, Swāt, Yūsufzai”, JRAS 1986, 248-254: “An inscription from Ambūr Fort in the Victoria and Albert Museum”, BSOAS 49, 1986, 553-557.
– Indian Islamic Architecture: Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments. Ed. by George Michell. Leiden 2008.
Sources: Michell’s introduction to 2008 book, with photo; Saryšev 1978; Wikipedia.