Dr. Harold Gould

A native of Boston, Dr. Gould is a Visiting Scholar in South Asian Studies at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. He has previously held positions as a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1968-1991, and as Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Illinois, 1978-1981. His doctorate was in the Philosophy in Anthropology at Washington University of St. Louis.

As part of his focus on South Asian studies, Dr. Gould has written 7 books, 100 journal articles, and over 50 op-ed pieces concerned with the Hindu caste system, peasant society, the social history and, more recently, the domestic and international politics of India.

Publications

* The Hindu Caste System :
(Vol. 1): The Sacralization of a Social Order (1987);
(Vol. 2): Caste Adaptation in Modernizing Indian Society (1988);
(Vol. 3): Caste and Politics (1991).

* Grass-Roots Politics in India: A Century of Political Evolution in Faizabad District (1994).

* The Hope and the Reality: US-Indian Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan 1992) (with Prof. Sumit Ganguly)

* India Votes: Alliance Politics: Coalition Government in the 9th and 10th General Elections (1993) (with Prof. Sumit Ganguly)

* India and America: Convergent Ideals and Conflicting Strategic Interests (forthcoming Sage India, December 2001) (Ashok Kapur, Harold Gould, Yogendra Malik, Arthur Rubinoff, eds.)

Dr. Gould currently is writing a book dealing with what he describes as "The India Lobby" in Washington during World War II. It deals with the attempts of Indian Nationalists in America to counter British propaganda opposing Indian political independence and persuade the US Government to openly declare its support for Indian freedom; also to improve the immigration rights of Indian migrants to the United States.

Selected scholarly articles:

There are two Kashmirs where there used to be one, India Abroad, July 10, 2002.

Can Pakistan Survive its Self-Inflicted Wounds?, India Abroad, October 19, 2001

Redefining Indo-US ties, The Hindu, Sept 14, 2001.

Fourth Generation Warfare, with Franklin C Spinney, Defense Week, Oct. 15, 2001.