Residence: 1409 Flintridge Rd.
Austin, TX 78746
(512) 327-0482
E-mail: rlh@austin.utexas.edu
Home Page: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/hardgrave/rlh.html
Date and Place of Birth: February 6, 1939, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Academic Title:
Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Departments of Government and Asian Studies.
Employment History:
Oberlin College, 1966-1967
University of Texas at Austin, 1967-2001 (retired)
Education and Degrees:
B.A. (Government), University of Texas at Austin, 1960
Indian School of International Studies, New Delhi, India, 1960-1961
M.A. (Political Science), University of Chicago, 1962
Ph.D. (Political Science), University of Chicago, 1966
Awards and Honors:
Endowed Professorship (bestowed 1989): Louann and Larry Temple Centennial
Professor of the Humanities
Alan Shivers Teaching Award, 1982
UT President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 1984
Teaching Excellence Award, "Eyes of Texas," 1995
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Eta Sigma
Pi Sigma Alpha
Research Grants and Fellowships:
Rotary International Fellowship, 1960-1961
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1961-1962
Carnegie Study of New Nations Fellowship (Honorary), 1962-1963
Committee on Southern Asian Studies Fellowship, 1962-1963
Carnegie Study of New Nations Fellowship (Honorary), 1963-1964
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1963-1964
Foreign Area Fellowship (Ford), 1964-1965, 1965-1966
Ford Faculty Research Grant, 1969-1970
National Research Council (Office of Education, HEW), 1971-1973
American Institute of Indian Studies, 1974
University Research Institute, December 1976-January 1977
Smithsonian Institution, December 1979-January 1980
American Institute of Indian Studies (Smithsonian), 1982
University Research Institute, July-August 1985
University Research Institute, Summer 1987
American Institute of Indian Studies, May-June 1990
University Research Institute, Spring 1991
Research Interests:
South Asia: domestic and international politics (India specialty)
Comparative ethnic conflict
British India: European images and artists' representation
American government and politics: Constitutional law and civil liberties
Selected Professional Activities:
Member, Editorial Board, Asian Survey, 1979-1996.
Consultant on "The Study of Indian Trends," U.S. Department of State,
1982-1983.
Consultant, Global Assessments, Inc., 1988-1995.
Member, Fellowship Selection Committee, Indo-U.S. Subcommission on
Education and Culture, 1983-date. Acting chairman, 1984; Co-chair, 1987;
Chair, 1988-1993.
Member, Research Council for the International Forum for Democratic
Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, 1994-2003.
Senior Policy Advisor for South Asia, Political Risk Services, Inc.,
1982-present.
Member, Kashmir Study Group, 1996-present.
Member, Editorial Board, India Review, 2001-present.
Editorial Advisor, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 2001-present.
Member, Editorial Board, Foreign Policy Bulletin, 2006-present.
Books:
The Dravidian Movement (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1965).
The Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969);
Indian edition, (Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1969).
Tamil translation (Tuticorin; Murugan Press, 1979).
New Edition (New Delhi: Manohar, 2006).
India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970); second edition (1975);
Indian reprint (New Delhi, Freeman, 1979);
third edition (1980); (withStanley A. Kochanek) fourth edition (1986);
(with Stanley A. Kochanek) fifth edition (1993);
(with Stanley A. Kochanek) sixth edition (Ft. Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000);
seventh edition (Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008).
(With James A. Bill) Comparative Politics: The Quest for Theory
(Columbus, Ohio: Charles Merrill, 1973); reprint (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981).
Korean translation (Seoul: Pak Young-Sa, 1983) (tr. by Kiwoo Kim).
(With Santiago Hinojosa) The Politics of Bilingual Education: A Study of Four
Southwest Texas Communities
(Austin: Sterling Swift Publishing Co., 1975).
Essays in the Political Sociology of South India
(New Delhi: Usha Publishers, 1979; New Delhi: Manohar, 1993).
India Under Pressure: Prospects for Political Stability
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984).
American Government: The Republic in Action
[high school text] (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986).
(With Stephen M. Slawek) Musical Instruments of North India: Eighteenth Century
Portraits by Baltazard Solvyns.
New Delhi: Manohar, 1997.
Boats of Bengal: Eighteenth Century Portraits by Balthazar Solvyns.
New Delhi: Manohar, 2001.
A Portrait of the Hindus: Solvyns and the European Image of India, 1760-1824.
New York: Oxford University Press (South Asia Research series)/Ahmedabad: Mapin, 2004.
Edited:
Word as Mantra: The Art of Raja Rao. New Delhi: Katha, 1998
Special issue on "Film and Mass Politics in the Developing Areas," American Behavioral Scientist, 17 (January-February 1974).
"Kashmir 1947: Burdens of the Past, Options for the Future--Four Perspectives," Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 36 (March 1998), pp. 92-123.
"Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India: A Review Symposium," Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 39 (March 2001), pp. 96-141.
Articles and Chapters:
"Caste, Class, and Politics, in Kerala," Political Science Review (India), 3 (May 1964), pp. 120-126.
"Caste in Kerala: A Preface to the Elections," Economic Weekly, 16 (November 21, 1964), pp. 1841-1847.
"The DMK and the Politics of Tamil Nationalism," Pacific Affairs, 37 (Winter 1964-65), pp. 396-411.
"Caste and the Kerala Elections," Economic Weekly, 17 (April 11, 1965), pp. 660-672.
"The Riots in Tamilnad: Problems and Prospects of India's Language Crisis," Asian Survey, 5 (August 1965), pp. 399-407.
"Religion, Politics and the DMK," in South Asian Politics and Religions, Donald E. Smith (ed.), (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966), pp. 213-234.
"Varieties of Political Behavior Among the Nadars of Tamilnad," Asian Survey, 6 (November 1966), pp. 614-621.
"The Justice Party and the Tamil Renaissance," in The Justice Party Golden Jubilee Souvenir (Madras: Shanmugam Press, 1968), pp. 73-75.
"The Breast-Cloth Controversy," Indian Economic and Social History Review, 5 (June 1968), pp. 171-187.
"Caste: Fission and Fusion," Economic and Political Weekly, 3, Special Number (July 1968), pp. 1065-1070.
"The New Mythology of a Caste in Change," Journal of Tamil Studies, 1(1) (April 1969), pp. 61-87. REPRINTED: Indo-British Review, 12 (January-June 1987), pp. 64-76.
"Political Culture and Projective Techniques," Comparative Political Studies, 2 (July 1969), pp. 249-155.
"The Congress in India: Crisis and Split," Asian Survey, 10 (March 1970), pp. 256-262.
"Film and Society in Tamil Nadu," Monthly Public Opinion Surveys of the Indian Institute of Public Opinion, 15 (March, April 1970), pp. 1-62.
"Political Participation and Primordial Sentiment: The Nadars of Tamilnad," in Caste in Inidan Politics, Rajni Kothari (ed.), (New Delhi: Orient Longmans, 1970), pp. 102-128.
"Urbanization and the Structure of Caste," in Urban India: Society, Space, and Image, Richard G. Fox (ed.) Durham: Duke University Press, 1970, pp. 39-50.
"The Marxist Dilemma in Kerala: Administration and/or Struggle," Asian Survey, 10 (November 1970), pp. 993-1003.
"The Celluloid God: M.G.R. and the Tamil Film," South Asian Review, 4 (July 1971), pp. 307-314.
"Politics and the Film in Tamil Nadu: The Stars and the DMK," Asian Survey, 13 (March 1973), pp. 288-305.
"The Kerala Communists: Contradictions of Powers," in Radical Movements in South Asia, Paul Brass and Marcus Franda (eds.) (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1973), pp. 119-180.
"Film and Political Consciousness in Tamil Nadu," with Anthony C. Neidhart, Economic and Political Weekly, 10 (January 11, 1975), pp. 27-35.
"The Communist Parties of Kerala: An Electoral Profile," in Electoral Politics in the Indian States: Party Systems and Clevages, Myron Weiner and John O. Field (eds.) (Delhi: Manohar, 1975), pp. 167-209.
"When Stars Displace the Gods: The Folk Culture of Cinema in Tamil Nadu," Occasional Papers No. 3, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1975; reprinted in The Allahabad University Magazine, 54 (June 1976), pp. 38-78; reprinted in Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry, Selvaraj Velayutham (ed.), (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
"Peasant Mobilization in Malabar: The Mappilla Rebellion, 1921," in Aspects of Political Mobilization in South Asia, South Asian Series, No. 1, Robert I. Crane (ed.) (Syracuse: Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 1976), pp. 67-108.
"The Mappilla Rebellion, 1921: Peasant Revolt in Malabar," Modern Asian Studies, 11 (1977), pp. 57-99.
"Caste, Cleavage and Political Conflict, in Main Currents" in Indian Sociology, Vol 3: Cohesion and Conflict, Giri Raj Gupta (ed.) (Delhi: Vikas, 1977), pp. 224-241.
"Protective Discrimination in the United States: From DeFunis to Bakke," Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 11 (December 3, 1977), pp. 2013-2020.
"Mappilla," in Muslim Peoples: An Ethnographic Survey, Richard V. Weeks (ed.) (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978), pp. 264-267.
"India: From Crisis to Crisis," Current History, 76 (April 1979), pp. 159-163.
"India Enters the 1980s," Current History, 81 (May 1982), pp. 197-201.
"Stability or Chaos," Darshan, 4 (June 1983), pp. 32-33.
"The Mappilla Rebellion, 1921," Introduction to the reprint edition of R.H. Hancock, A History of the Malabar Rebellion, 1921 (originally published Madras, 1925) (New Delhi: Usha Publications, 1982), pp. 1-27. [Reprint of Modern Asian Studies article, 1977].
"The Northeast, the Punjab, and the Regionalization of Indian Politics," Asian Survey, 13 (November 1983), pp. 1171-1181. REPRINTED: in B. H. Shafruddin and Iftikhar A.M.Z. Fadzli, eds., Between Centre and State: Federalism in Perspective (Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia, 1988), pp. 111-119.
"India in 1983: New Challenges, Lost Opportunities," Asian Survey, 14 (February 1984), pp. 209-218.
"India's Stability," Discovery, 8 (Spring 1984), pp. 31-33.
"Why India Matters: The Challenge to American Policy in South Asia," Asian Affairs, 11 (Spring 1984), pp. 45-56.
"Mappilla," in Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, 2nd ed., (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984), 492-495.
"India on the Eve of Elections: Congress and the Opposition," Pacific Affairs, 57 (Fall 1984), pp. 404-428.
"India in 1984: Confrontation, Assassination, and Succession," Asian Survey, 25 (February 1985), pp. 131-44.
"India After Indira," India: An Economic and Political Update. Country Briefing. The Asia Society, New York (April 1985).
"Positive Discrimination in Indian Constitutional Law: From Dorairajan to Thomas," in Judges and Judicial Power: Essays in Honor of Justice Krishna Iyer, R. Dhavan et.al. (eds.), (Bombay: N.M. Tripathi, 1986), pp. 214-228.
"Social Change and Political Stability in India," in Modern India: Society and Politics in Transition. T.P. Sankarankutty Nair (ed.) (New Delhi: Inter-India Publications, 1988), pp. 49-66.
"Linkage Politics in India: The Relationship of Domestic Politics to Foreign Policy," in Asia and the Major Powers: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy. Robert A. Scalapino et al (eds.), (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, The University of California, 1988), pp. 306-340.
"South Asia," Global Assessment, 6 (Winter 1988/89), pp. 103-07.
"South Asia," Global Assessment, 7 (Spring/Summer 1989), pp. 97-100.
"Instruments and Music Culture in Eighteenth Century India: The Solvyns Portraits" (with Stephen A. Slawek), Asian Music, 20,1 (Fall/Winter 1988/89), pp. 1-92.
"South Asia," Global Assessment, 8 (Winter 1989/90), pp. 91-95.
"South Asia," Global Assessment, 9 (Spring/Summer 1990), pp. 80-82.
"A Portrait of Black Town: Baltazard Solvyns in Calcutta, 1791-1804," in Changing Visions, Lasting Images: Calcutta Through 300 Years. Pratapaditya Pal (ed.), (Bombay: Marg Publications, 1990), pp. 31-46.
"The Study of Indian Politics in the United States" (in Chinese), South Asian Studies (Beijing), 4 (1990), pp. 83-86.
"South Asian Internal Politics," in Asia in the 1990s: American and Soviet Perspectives. Robert A. Scalapino and Gennady I. Chufrin (eds.), (Berkeley: Institute and East Asian Studies, The University of California, 1991), pp. 194-210.
"South Asia," Global Assessment, 10 (1991), pp. 88-90.
"South Asia," Global Assessment, 11 (1992), pp. 90-91.
"Projected U.S. and U.S.S.R. Roles in South Asia," in United States-India Relations, Leo E. Rose and Eric Gonzalves (eds.), (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, The University of California), 1992, pp. 65-77.
"After the Dynasty: Politics in India," Current History, 91 (March 1992), pp. 106-112. Reprinted in Christian Soe (ed.), Comparative Politics 92/93 (Guildford, CT: Dushkin, 1992), pp. 195-99; and in James K. Norton (ed.), Global Studies: India and South Asia(Guildford, CT: Dushkin, 1993), pp. 75-80.
"India," Global Assessment, 12 (1993), pp. 66-67.
"Nadar," in Dravidian Encyclopaedia, Vol. II, Thiruvananthapuram (India): International School of Dravidian Linguistics, 1993, p. 516-519.
"Indian American Students: Rediscovery of India," Guest Column, India Today (North American Edition), August 31, 1992, p. 60h.
"Alliance Politics and Minority Government: India at the Polls, 1989 and 1991," in Harold A. Gould and Sumit Ganguly, eds., India Votes: Alliance Politics and Minority Governments in the Ninth and Tenth General Elections. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, pp. 226-240.
"India: Dilemmas of Diversity," Journal of Democracy, 4 (October 1993), pp. 54-68. Reprinted in Larry Diamond and Marc A. Plattner, eds., Nationalism, Ethic Conflict, and Democracy, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp. 71-85.
"Activity in Emerging Markets--India," Global Assessment, 13 (1994), pp. 33-35.
"Booming India," Global Assessment, 14 (1995), pp. 38-43.
"Solvyns, F(rancois) Baltazard," The Dictionary of Art, Vol. 24, London: MacMillian/ New York: Grove, 1996, p. 55.
"An Early Portrayal of the Sikhs: Two Eighteenth Century Etchings by Baltazard Solvyns," International Journal of Punjab Studies, 3 (1996), pp. 213-227.
"Dilemmas of Democracy in India: Majority Rule and Minority Rights," in S. N. Sridhar and Nirmal K. Matto, eds. Ananya: A Portrait of India. New York: Association of Indians in America, 1997, pp. 329-346.
"The Representation of Sati: Four Eighteenth-Century Etchings by Baltazard Solvyns," Bengal Past & Present, 117 (1998), pp. 57-80.
(with Stanley A. Kochanek), "Indian Politics on the Internet: A Resource Guide," Education About Asia, 4 (Fall 1999), pp. 40-43.
"Fran¨ois Balthazar Solvyns: A Flemish Artist in Bengal, 1791-1803." IIAS Newsletter [International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden], 28 (August 2002), p. 15. Online: http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/28/IIASN28_15.pdf (PDF document)
"Hindu Nationalism and the BJP: Transforming Religion and Politics in India," in Rafiq Dossani and Henry S. Rowen, eds., Prospects for Peace in South Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005, pp. 185-214.
"An Academic Odyssey: West Texas to South India" [an autobiographical essay], in William Roger Louis, ed., Burnt Orange Britannia, London: I. B. Tauris/Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2005, pp. 196-211.
"Politics and the Film in Tamil Nadu: The Stars and the DMK" [reprinted from Asian Survey, 1973], in Selvaraj Velayutham, ed., Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry, London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 58-76.
"Balthazar Solvyns and Eighteenth Century Calcutta" ["The Search for Balthazar Solvyns and an Indian Past: The Anatomy of a Research Project"], in William Roger Louis, ed., Ultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain, London: I. B. Tauris/Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, in press.
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