Robert L Hardgrave
Biographic Data
| ID | 587207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Hardgrave |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardgrave |
| SIGNATURE | HARDGRAVE R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Nadars
The Nadars of Tamilnad
Kashmir 1947
(1998). Kashmir 1947: Burdens of the past, options for the future ‐ four perspectives. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 92-123
The Image Trap
The Image Trap Appendix I A Brief Chronology of Events in MGR's Life Appendix II MGR - Filmography Appendix III Electoral Performance of the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu
The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict
The Challenge of Ethnic ConflictIndia-The Dilemmas of Diversity Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. (bio) India came to independence in 1947 amidst the trauma of partition. The nationalist movement, led by Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, aimed to gather what was then British India plus the 562 princely states under British paramountcy into a secular and democratic state. But Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the Muslim League, feared that his coreligio…
After the Dynasty
Essay| March 01 1992 After the Dynasty: Politics in India Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr., is the Temple Professor of Humanities in Government and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is, with Stanley A. Kochanek, the coauthor of India: Government and Politics in a New Nation, 5th ed. (Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt BraceJovanovich, forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This…
Instruments and Music Culture in Eighteenth Century India
Contributions de F. B. Solvyns, artiste peintre flamand, a la connaissance des instruments de musique indiens. Inventaire des instruments : croquis, dessins accompagnes de descriptifs
India in 1984
Research Article| February 01 1985 India in 1984: Confrontation, Assassination, and Succession Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1956) 25 (2): 131–144. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644297 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon …
India's Search for Power. Indira Gandhi's Foreign Policy, 1966-1982
India Under Pressure. Prospects for Political Stability
Why India Matters
Relations between India and the United States can be characterized as strained, while punctuated by periods of friendship and cooperation. Difficulties have been less the product of bilateral conflicts than of problems arising from differing perceptions of the strategic environment of South Asia. The U.S. has taken a global view, shaped fundamentally by the East-West conflict with the Soviet Union. India's view is regional, and New Delhi seeks to…
India in 1983
India in 1983 faced enormous pressure in the turmoil and violence in Assam and the Punjab, deepening ethnic and communal enmities. Politically, with serious electoral losses in Andhra and Karnataka, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi went on the defensive, and the Congress (I) demonstrated the resilience that belies the pronouncement of the party's collapse. The opposition parties, still in internecine struggle, continued their unity efforts with the f…
Communism in Kerala
India on the Eve of Elections
ONE OF THE major sources of India's political stability has been the institutional strength of the Indian National Congress-the movement, founded in 1885, that led India to independence and, since 1947, the party that has held power at the center for all but thirty-three months. Today that strength is seriously weakened, and the more encompassing party system is incoherent.' Congress party dominance in the states and at the center is no longer as…
The Northeast, the Punjab, and the Regionalization of Indian Politics
Research Article| November 01 1983 The Northeast, the Punjab, and the Regionalization of Indian Politics Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1954) 23 (11): 1171–1181. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644366 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon To…
India Enters the 1980’s
Essay| May 01 1982 India Enters the 1980’s Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. is the author of The Nadars of Tamiland: Essays in the Political Sociology of South India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969), and India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation, 3d ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980). He is currently engaged in research on…
The Democratic Process in a Developing Society
India
Essay| April 01 1979 India: From Crisis to Crisis Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr., has visited India five times for research since 1960. He is the author of The Nadars of Tamilnad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969); the third edition of his text, India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation, will be published this fall by Harco…
Citizens and Politics
The Mappilla Rebellion, 1921
In any society the dominant groups are the ones with the most to hide about the way society works. Very often therefore truthful analyses are bound to have a critical ring, to seem like exposures rather than objective statements, ... For all students of human society, sympathy with the victims of historical processes and skepticism about the victors' claims provide essential safeguards against being taken in by the dominant mythology. A scholar w…
Urban Politics in India
Politics and the Film in Tamilnadu
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party of Tamil- nadu State in India, has split in climax to persistent rumors of intraparty discord and impending schism.M. G. Ramachandran, DMK party treasurer and popular Tamil film star, was stripped of his party offices and suspended from membership in the party to which he had so long
Radical Politics in West Bengal. Marcus F. Franda
Hardgrave Replies to the Reviewer of His The Nadars of Tamilnad
The Nadars of Tamilnad. The Political Culture of a Community in Change
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
The Image Trap
The Image Trap Appendix I A Brief Chronology of Events in MGR's Life Appendix II MGR - Filmography Appendix III Electoral Performance of the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu
The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict
The Challenge of Ethnic ConflictIndia-The Dilemmas of Diversity Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. (bio) India came to independence in 1947 amidst the trauma of partition. The nationalist movement, led by Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, aimed to gather what was then British India plus the 562 princely states under British paramountcy into a secular and democratic state. But Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the Muslim League, feared that his coreligio…
The Breast-Cloth Controversy
The Mappilla Rebellion, 1921
In any society the dominant groups are the ones with the most to hide about the way society works. Very often therefore truthful analyses are bound to have a critical ring, to seem like exposures rather than objective statements, ... For all students of human society, sympathy with the victims of historical processes and skepticism about the victors' claims provide essential safeguards against being taken in by the dominant mythology. A scholar w…
Politics and the Film in Tamilnadu
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party of Tamil- nadu State in India, has split in climax to persistent rumors of intraparty discord and impending schism.M. G. Ramachandran, DMK party treasurer and popular Tamil film star, was stripped of his party offices and suspended from membership in the party to which he had so long
The Congress in India -- Crisis and Split
Research Article| March 01 1970 The Congress in India -- Crisis and Split Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1941) 10 (3): 256–262. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642578 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions…
The DMK and the Politics of Tamil Nationalism
C ONFRONTED BY A CONTINUING BARRAGE of factional demands, from the Muslim League to the Jan Sangh, the Jharkhand, and the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham, Nehru often denounced the mentality of the Indian communities. Since his death, many fear that India's new leadership will be unable to hold the nation together. Like many of the new states of Africa and Asia, India is a mosaic of communities-religious, ethnic, and linguistic: she has six major relig…
Instruments and Music Culture in Eighteenth Century India
Contributions de F. B. Solvyns, artiste peintre flamand, a la connaissance des instruments de musique indiens. Inventaire des instruments : croquis, dessins accompagnes de descriptifs
India in 1984
Research Article| February 01 1985 India in 1984: Confrontation, Assassination, and Succession Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1956) 25 (2): 131–144. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644297 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon …
India on the Eve of Elections
ONE OF THE major sources of India's political stability has been the institutional strength of the Indian National Congress-the movement, founded in 1885, that led India to independence and, since 1947, the party that has held power at the center for all but thirty-three months. Today that strength is seriously weakened, and the more encompassing party system is incoherent.' Congress party dominance in the states and at the center is no longer as…
The Nadars of Tamilnad. The Political Culture of a Community in Change
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
The Riots in Tamilnad
Research Article| August 01 1965 The Riots in Tamilnad: Problems and Prospects of India's Language Crisis Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1936) 5 (8): 399–407. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642412 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Why India Matters
Relations between India and the United States can be characterized as strained, while punctuated by periods of friendship and cooperation. Difficulties have been less the product of bilateral conflicts than of problems arising from differing perceptions of the strategic environment of South Asia. The U.S. has taken a global view, shaped fundamentally by the East-West conflict with the Soviet Union. India's view is regional, and New Delhi seeks to…
The Northeast, the Punjab, and the Regionalization of Indian Politics
Research Article| November 01 1983 The Northeast, the Punjab, and the Regionalization of Indian Politics Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1954) 23 (11): 1171–1181. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644366 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon To…
The Marxist Dilemma in Kerala
Research Article| November 01 1970 The Marxist Dilemma in Kerala: Administration and/or Struggle Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1941) 10 (11): 993–1003. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642819 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Ge…
Political Culture and Projective Techniques
The DMK and the Politics of Tamil Nationalism
C ONFRONTED BY A CONTINUING BARRAGE of factional demands, from the Muslim League to the Jan Sangh, the Jharkhand, and the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham, Nehru often denounced the mentality of the Indian communities. Since his death, many fear that India's new leadership will be unable to hold the nation together. Like many of the new states of Africa and Asia, India is a mosaic of communities-religious, ethnic, and linguistic: she has six major relig…
The Riots in Tamilnad
Research Article| August 01 1965 The Riots in Tamilnad: Problems and Prospects of India's Language Crisis Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1936) 5 (8): 399–407. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642412 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Varieties of Political Behavior among Nadars of Tamilnad
Research Article| November 01 1966 Varieties of Political Behavior among Nadars of Tamilnad Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1937) 6 (11): 614–621. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642284 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
The Breast-Cloth Controversy
Directive Principles in the Indian Constitution
Political Culture and Projective Techniques
The Nadars of Tamilnad
Politics in India
The Congress in India -- Crisis and Split
Research Article| March 01 1970 The Congress in India -- Crisis and Split Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1941) 10 (3): 256–262. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642578 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions…
The Marxist Dilemma in Kerala
Research Article| November 01 1970 The Marxist Dilemma in Kerala: Administration and/or Struggle Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1941) 10 (11): 993–1003. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642819 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Ge…
Sangam Polity
Soundings in Modern South Asian History
All o f us who have contributed to it were either on the staff or held research studentships there, except Dietmar Rothermund, who came to us for a short time as a visiting fellow.We have now scattered to half a dozen universities in three different continents.But we shall not forget the experience of working together which we enjoyed in Canberra.A genial colleague dubbed us 'the sepoys'.If the ascription may be taken to mean that we are humble f…
Hardgrave Replies to the Reviewer of His The Nadars of Tamilnad
The Nadars of Tamilnad. The Political Culture of a Community in Change
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
Radical Politics in West Bengal. Marcus F. Franda
Politics and the Film in Tamilnadu
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party of Tamil- nadu State in India, has split in climax to persistent rumors of intraparty discord and impending schism.M. G. Ramachandran, DMK party treasurer and popular Tamil film star, was stripped of his party offices and suspended from membership in the party to which he had so long
Urban Politics in India
The Mappilla Rebellion, 1921
In any society the dominant groups are the ones with the most to hide about the way society works. Very often therefore truthful analyses are bound to have a critical ring, to seem like exposures rather than objective statements, ... For all students of human society, sympathy with the victims of historical processes and skepticism about the victors' claims provide essential safeguards against being taken in by the dominant mythology. A scholar w…
India
Essay| April 01 1979 India: From Crisis to Crisis Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr., has visited India five times for research since 1960. He is the author of The Nadars of Tamilnad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969); the third edition of his text, India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation, will be published this fall by Harco…
Citizens and Politics
The Democratic Process in a Developing Society
India Enters the 1980’s
Essay| May 01 1982 India Enters the 1980’s Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. is the author of The Nadars of Tamiland: Essays in the Political Sociology of South India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969), and India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation, 3d ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980). He is currently engaged in research on…
The Northeast, the Punjab, and the Regionalization of Indian Politics
Research Article| November 01 1983 The Northeast, the Punjab, and the Regionalization of Indian Politics Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Robert L. Hardgrave,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1954) 23 (11): 1171–1181. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644366 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon To…
Why India Matters
Relations between India and the United States can be characterized as strained, while punctuated by periods of friendship and cooperation. Difficulties have been less the product of bilateral conflicts than of problems arising from differing perceptions of the strategic environment of South Asia. The U.S. has taken a global view, shaped fundamentally by the East-West conflict with the Soviet Union. India's view is regional, and New Delhi seeks to…
India in 1983
India in 1983 faced enormous pressure in the turmoil and violence in Assam and the Punjab, deepening ethnic and communal enmities. Politically, with serious electoral losses in Andhra and Karnataka, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi went on the defensive, and the Congress (I) demonstrated the resilience that belies the pronouncement of the party's collapse. The opposition parties, still in internecine struggle, continued their unity efforts with the f…
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