Edward Roger Ingram Ellis (born in

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

) was an Anglo-Canadian historian of the

British Empire The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts e ...

, long-time former editor of the

International History Review ''The International History Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of international relations and the history of international thought published by Routledge. It was established in 1978 by Edward Ingram, Gordon Martel ...

, and emeritus professor at

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located ...

. Having obtained his BA and MA degrees from Balliol College, Oxford, Ingram went on to receive his PhD in international history from the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

, completing his doctoral dissertation under the direction of Hilda Lee and

Elie Kedourie Elie Kedourie (25 January 1926, Baghdad – 29 June 1992, Washington) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a liberal perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. From 1953 to 1990, he t ...

. Most of Ingram's scholarly publishing focused on the so-called

Great Game The Great Game is the name for a set of political, diplomatic and military confrontations that occurred through most of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century – involving the rivalry of the British Empire and the Russian Empi ...

, the imperial rivalry between the British and Russian Empires in

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. In 1966 he joined the faculty of

in Burnaby,

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. In 1978 he was made Professor of Imperial History at SFU and became editor of the ''International History Review'', holding the former position until his retirement in 2003. He remained Professor of Imperial History Emeritus at SFU until his passing in 2022. Ingram died in Carterton, New Zealand on March 15, 2022.

Selected bibliography

*''Two Views of British India: The Private Correspondence of Mr. Dundas and

Lord Wellesley Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of ...

, 1798–1801'' (Editor, 1970) *''The Beginning of the Great Game in Asia, 1828–1834'' (1979) *''Commitment to Empire: Prophecies of the Great Game in Asia 1797–1800'' (1981) *''In Defence of British India: Great Britain in the Middle East, 1774–1842'' (1984) *''National and International Politics in the Middle East: Essays in Honour of

'' (Editor, 1986) *''Britain's Persian Connection, 1798–1828: Prelude to the Great Game in Asia'' (1992) *''Eastern Questions in the Nineteenth Century: Collected Essays'' (Editor, 1993) *''Anglo-Ottoman Encounters in the Age of Revolution'' (Editor, 1993) *''Empire Building and Empire Builders'' (1995) *''The British Empire as a World Power'' (2001)

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Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of the London School of Economics Academic staff of Simon Fraser University 20th-century English historians 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers 1945 births Living people {{UK-historian-stub

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