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Granville Seward Austin (1927 – 6 July 2014) was an American historian of the Indian Constitution.[1][2]

Education

Austin received most of his early education at Norwich, Vermont, USA. Austin graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in American Literature.[citation needed] He then earned a doctorate in Modern Indian History from Oxford University.[citation needed]

Career

He worked as a journalist/photographer and later served with the U. S. Information Service, Department of State, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and on the staff of a U. S. senator. He has held fellowships or grants from St. Antony's College, Oxford, the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, and the Institute of Current World Affairs.[3][4]

Austin was the author of two seminal political histories of the constitution of India, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation and Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience.[2]

While serving as director of the State Department's Near East and South Asia office, he reviewed intelligence reports pertaining to the 1967 USS Liberty incident. He became convinced the Israelis knew they were attacking an American naval vessel: “They knew damn well what it was. That it was an accident, of course, was nonsense.”[5]

He died on 6 July 2014.[6]

Awards

In 2011, in recognition for his writing on the framing and working of the Indian Constitution, Granville Austin was awarded a Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian honor of the Republic of India.[7][8] National Translation Mission of the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India has selected The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation for translation into Indian languages. The book has already been published in Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia, Hindi and Malayalam languages.[9]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Working a Democratic Constitution : The Indian Experience". Vedam Books. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Working a Democratic Constitution : The Indian Experience". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2008-03-28. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
  3. ^ "Granville Austin - About the Author". granvilleaustin.com. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  4. ^ Austin travelled to India in August 1960 and tasked upon himself to study the making of the Indian Constitution.
  5. ^ Scott, James (2 June 2009). The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship. ISBN 9781416554820.
  6. ^ "Granville Austin, RIP". Law and other things. Vikram Raghavan. 7 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Padma Sri Awardees". NIC - Govt. of India. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  8. ^ "Padma Awards Announced" (Press release). Ministry of Home Affairs. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  9. ^ "Published Translations & Dictionaries". National Translation Mission. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
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