Name L. Rushbrook | Died 1978 | |
Books The East Pakistan tragedy, Pakistan Under Challenge | ||
Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams, (1890–1978) was a British historian and civil servant who spent part of his working life in India, and had an abiding interest in Eastern culture.
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Life and work
Rushbrook Williams was a Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. He built up a school of Mughal studies at the University of Allahabad, where he was professor of Modern Indian History. He was Eastern Services Director of the B.B.C., and also worked on the editorial staff of The Times (London). He acted as a government advisor on Middle East and Asian affairs, and contributed to publications like the Royal Central Asian Society Journal and the Encyclopædia Britannica.
He became interested in Sufism through his contact with Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah and later edited an anthology of contributions to a symposium in honor of the work of the noted Sufi author, Idries Shah.
Works
Rushbrook Williams wrote several works on India, Asia and the Middle East, among them the following: