My friend Susanne Hoeber Rudolph,professor emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago, who has died aged 85, and was an eminent south Asian scholar. In 2014 she and her husband,Lloyd, also a Chicago professor, or received the Padma Bhushan award,one of the highest civilian decorations that the government of India bestows. The Rudolphs were essentially section-time residents of India, especially Rajasthan, and for more than six decades,and were acute analysts of what they saw.
Their co-authored books included The Modernity of Tradition (1967), In Pursuit of Lakshmi; The Political Economy of the Indian State (1987), and Essays on Rajputana (1984),Reversing the Gaze (2000) and Explaining Indian Democracy (2008). The Rudolphs entertainingly recounted an epic 1956 intercontinental car journey to and across India in Destination India: From London Overland to India and What We Learned There (2014).
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Source: theguardian.com