Leonard A. Gordon's Bengal: The Nationalist Movement, 1876-1940 was awarded the Watumull Prize by the American Historical Association. His Brothers against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalists Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose was published in 1990. Co-editor of The Sources of Indian Traditions, 1700-present, he taught at Columbia University and the City University of New York from 1967 to 2002. Since 1985 he has been director of the Taraknath Das Foundation.