RAWSON, Joseph Nadin

RAWSON, Joseph Nadin. Hyson Green Radford, Nottinghamshire 8.5.1880 — Calcutta 19.4.1940. British Scholar of Religion. Son of Joseph Rawson (1856–1940) and Elizabeth Ross. Student of Macdonell and Farquhar at Oxford. Professor of History of Religions and Philosophy of Religion at Serampore College (1934 there). Fellow of Calcutta University. Married 1914 Mabel Wheatley, four children.

Publications: Edited & transl.: The Kaṭha Upaniṣad. An Introductory Study in the Hindu Doctrine of God and of Human Destiny. 18+242 p. Oxford 1934.

Sources: Stray notes in Internet; ancestry.com.

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