Granville Austin

Granville Austin

Granville Austin came to live in Norwich, Vermont, in 1932 at the age of five. After attending the village's primary school and then its high school, Austin graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, with a BA in American Literature. He then earned a doctorate in Modern Indian History from Oxford University.

Austin 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 is the author of two groundbreaking political histories of the constitution of India.

He has held fellowships or grants from from St. Antony's College, Oxford, the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Rockefeller Founation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, and the Institute of Current World Affairs.