Curriculum Vita

 

 Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.

 

Department of Government                                         Residence:  1409 Flintridge Rd.

University of Texas at Austin                                     Austin, TX  78746

Austin, TX  78712-1087                                             (512) 327-0482

Office (512) 471-5121                                                           

FAX (512) 471-1062                                                  E-mail:  mailto: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.

Memberr, Editorial Board, Foreign Policy Bulletin, 2006-present.

 

 

Publications

 

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);

(with Stanley 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 [released Feb. 2007]).

 

(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 Indias

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.

 

"Franois 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

 

"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.

 

 

December 2006