John Garrard Burton-Page (19 December 1921 – 2005) was a British orientalist, Lecturer in the Art and Architecture of India at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Though he enrolled as a horn player at the Royal College of Music, his study was interrupted by World War II.
Having become fluent in Hindi and Nepali, on return to England he entered as a mature student at Wadham College, Oxford to study Sanskrit.
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.
[2] 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.