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Lloyd Rudolph |
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| Major Areas of Interest: | - Comparative Politics; - Political Economy; - State formation; - South Asian Politics; - South Asian Cultural and Identity Politics; - Gandhian Thought and Practice. |
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After many years of presenting myself in the stilted prose of a third person voice, "Lloyd Rudolph did this or that," I have decided to switch to the more direct and hopefully less pretentious first person voice.
To start with, at the end of June 2002 I retired and became an Emeritus Professor of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science. My colleague [and wife] Susanne Rudolph retired at the same time so we can continue to do things together. I quickly found that retirement is a productive and happy stage of life. It seems it is rather like receiving a long term research grant that enables you to write books and articles and to attend conferences at interesting places abroad and in the US - and at times and places of my own choosing.
For the record [the details of which can be found by clicking on my CV], I had taught at the University of Chicago for 34 years and, before that, for seven years at Harvard University. In preparation for our Festschrift Conference on "Area Studies Redux: Situating Knowledge in a Globalizing World" in April 2003 Susanne and I got in touch with as many of our Harvard and Chicago Ph.D. students as we could. Many turned up for the conference.
Because this website entry may be consulted by those wishing to check me out in order to introduce me at various events, I am listing a few useful facts about my career. Those wanting more detail should click on the LIR CV. This website lists recent work and earlier major publications. Many have links that give details or provide texts.
At various times over the years I served as Chair of the Committee on International Relations and the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences and as Chair of concentrations in Political Science, Public Policy, International Studies and South Asian Studies in the College.
To continue: I received a BA [Magna] in 1948 from Harvard College, an MPA in 1950 from what later became Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a Ph.D. in 1956 in Political Science, from Harvard University. Louis Hartz and Sam Beer were my thesis advisers. I wrote on "The Meaning of Party: From the Politics of Status to the Politics of Opinion in Eighteenth Century England and America."
Over the course of the years, I have co-authored eight books with Susanne Hoeber Rudolph: The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India [1967]; Education and Politics in India [1972]; The Regional Imperative: The Administration of US Foreign Policy Towards South Asian States [1980]; Gandhi: The Traditional Roots of Charisma [1983]; Essays on Rajputana [1984]; In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State [1987]; Reversing the Gaze: The Amar Singh Diary, a Colonial Subject s Narrative of Imperial India [2000, 2005] and, most recently, Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays: Gandhi in the World and at Home [2006]. I have also edited or co-edited and contributed to Cultural Politics in India [[1984]; The Idea of Rajasthan [1994] and, mostly recently Experiencing the State [2006].
Starting in 1957, I have published a good many articles in wide variety of scholarly journals such as The American Political Science Review; Perspectives on Politics; World Politics; The Journal of Asian Studies; Modern Asian Studies; and Daedalus; written for journals of opinion such as Foreign Affairs; The New Republic; The New York Times Magazine; The New York Times Book Review; The Christian Science Monitor; and The Nation and contributed to many composite books. I also have a media record: I have commented on National Public Radio, BBC and VOA, appeared on CNN, Ted Koppel's Night Line, William Buckley's Firing Line, and participated in the making and performance of the PBS documentary, "Life and Death of a Dynasty" about Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
I have benefited from and am grateful for grants or fellowships from the MacArthur, Ford, National Science and Guggenheim Foundations, the American Institute of Indian Studies [AIIS], the National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH] and the Fulbright program; participated in studies for the U.S. Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Asia Society and the Overseas Development Council; and served as a consultant with the Ford and MacArthur Foundations, the National Security Council and the Department of State, the Social Science Research Council, The US Institute of Peace and The American Council of Learned Societies.
These days Susanne Rudolph and I divide our time among Kensington, California [in the East Bay, next door to Berkeley], Barnard, Vermont and Jaipur, Rajasthan. We miss the wonderful city of Chicago and our friends and colleagues at the University of Chicago but feel very much at home in the intellectual and social life of Kensington, Barnard and Jaipur. Our three grown children, Jenny, Amelia and Matthew, did some of their growing up in India. Now launched on their own careers, they are friends to each other and to us.
Selected Publications:
- Experiencing the State editor, with John Kurt Jacobsen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) [book cover];
- Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays: Gandhi in the World and at Home editor, with Susanne Rudolph (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) [book cover]
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- "US foreign policy for south Asia," with Susanne Rudolph, in Economic and Political Weekly, February 25 - March 3, 2006, Vol XLI, No. 8: pp. 703 - 709;
- "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend: Arguments for Pluralism and against Monopoly in Political Science," in Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science, edited by Kristen Monroe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 230-36;
- "Introducing Democracy into the APSA: The Case for Member Sovereignty and Constituency Representation," in Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science, edited by Kristen Monroe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 278-81;
- "Engaging Subjective Knowledge: How Amar Sing's Diary Narratives of and by the Self Help Explain Identity Politics," with Susanne Rudolph, in Perspectives on Politics, 1(4) December 2003;
- "Writing and Reading Tod's Rajasthan: Interpreting the Text and Its Historiography," with Susanne Rudolph, in Circumambulations in South Asian History, edited by Jos Gommans and Om Prakash (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003);
- "The Coffee House and the Ashram: Gandhi, Civil Society, and Public Spheres," with Susanne Rudolph, in Civil Society and Democracy: A Reader, edited by Carolyn M. Elliott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003);
- "South Asia Faces the Future: New Dimensions of Indian Democracy," with Susanne Rudolph, in Journal of Democracy, January 2002, Vol XIII, No. 1: pp. 52 - 66;
- "Living with Multiculturalism: Universalism and Particularism in an Indian Historical Context," with Susanne Rudolph, in Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenges in Liberal Democracies, edited by Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002);
- "Redoing the Constitutional Design: From an Interventionist to a Regulatory State," with Susanne Rudolph, in The Success of India's Democracy, edited by Atul Kohli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001);
- "The Iconisation of Chandrababu: Sharing Sovereignty in India's Federal Market Economy" with Susanne Rudolph, in Economic and Political Weekly (2001);
- Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary -- A Colonial Subjects Narrative of Imperial India editor, with Susanne Rudolph and Mohan Singh Kanota (Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) [book cover; review by Dane Kennedy; review by Jesse Palsetia];
- "Living With Difference in India; Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context," with Susanne Rudolph, in Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment, edited by Gerald James Larson (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001);
- "Self Constructing Culture; Ethnography of the Amar Singh Diary" in Economic and Political Weekly (2000);
- Review of Pradeep K. Chhibber, Democracy Without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).
- The Idea of Rajasthan, II vols., (Delhi: Manohar, 1994) [book cover];
- "Modern Hate: How Ancient Animosities Get Invented," with Susanne Rudolph, in The New Republic, March 22, 1993 [cover];
- In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State, with Susanne Rudolph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) [book cover];
- "The East Psychoanalyzed," review of Lucian W. Pye and Mary W. Pye, Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 1986), in The New York Times Book Review, February 8, 1986 [review; correspondence];
- Cultural Policy in India, editor, ( Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1984) [book cover];
- Essays on Rajputana: Reflections on History, Culture, and Administration, with Susanne Rudolph (Delhi: Concept, 1984) [book cover];
- Gandhi: The Traditional Roots of Charisma, with Susanne Rudolph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983) [book cover];
- The Regional Imperative: the Administration of U. S. Foreign Poliy towards South Asian States under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, editor, with Susanne Rudolph (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1980) [book cover];
- Education and Politics in India: Studies in Organization, Society, and Policy, editor, with Susanne Rudolph (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972) [book cover];
- The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India, with Susanne Rudolph (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1967) [book cover];
- "The Modernity of Tradition: The Democratic Incarnation of Caste in India," in The American Political Science Review, December 1965, Vol. LIX, No. 4: pp. 975 - 989.
