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Paul R. Brass papers, 1931-2016

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Brass, Paul R., 1936-
Title
Paul R. Brass papers
Dates
1931-2016 (inclusive)
Quantity
176.8 cubic feet plus 840 digitized oral history audio files (164GB) and 93 scanned interview transcripts (358MB) (187 boxes, 2 oversize folders)
Collection Number
5329
Summary
Papers of a professor of political science at the University of Washington
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, but access to portions of the collection is restricted. Contact Special Collections for details.

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Languages
English, Hindi, Urdu
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Biographical Note

Dr. Paul R. Brass has been a University of Washington faculty member and Professor, Department of Political Science and The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies since 1965. He received his B.A. in 1958, Government, Harvard College, his M.A. in 1959 Political Science, University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in 1964, Political Science, University of Chicago.

Brass's teaching specializations include: Comparative politics (South Asia); ethnicity and nationalism as well as collective violence.

Brass has received Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. 1994-1995; Faculty Research Fellowships, Amercian Institute of Indian Studies: 1993, 1982-1983, 1973, 1966-1976; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1972-1973; Grants for Research on South Asia, American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council, 1966-1967, 1973-1974, 1977-1978, 1982-1983.

His current research is on Hindu-Muslim violence in India.

WORKS BY PAUL BRASS

The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003)

Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essagys for Asghar Ali Engineer Ed. with Achin Vanaik. (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002)

Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997)

Riots and Pogroms (London and New York: Macmillan and NYU Press, 1996)

The Politics of India Since Independence. Second Ed. Vol. IV of the New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison (New Delhi and Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991)

The Indian National Congress and Indian Society, 1885-1985: Ideology, Social Structure, and Political Dominance (with Frances Robinson) (New Delhi: Chanakya Press, 1987)

Ethnic Groups and the State London (Croom Helm, 1985)

Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. II: Election Studies (New Delhi: Chanakya Press, 1985)

Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. I: Faction and Party (New Delhi: Chanakya Press, 1984)

Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia (with Robert S. Anderson, Edwin Levy, and Barrie M. Morrison) (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1982)

Language, Religion and Politics in North India (Cambridge: cambridge University Press, 1974)

Radical Politics in South Asia (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1973)

Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh (Berkeley, University of California, 1965)

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Content Description

Administrative materials chronicling Brass's service to the University of Washington, manuscript drafts, research materials, recordings and transcripts of interviews made by Brass, ephemera, reports, lectures, presentations, writings, correspondence, course materials, and related materials. Includes research materials collected for Brass' 3-volume biography of Charan Singh, "An Indian political life" with original and photocopied materials provided by Singh himself.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into 7 accessions.

  • Accession No. 5329-001, Paul R. Brass papers, 1951-2002
  • Accession No. 5329-002, Paul R. Brass papers, 1960-2003
  • Accession No. 5329-003, Paul Brass oral history interviews, 1967-2009
  • Accession No. 5329-004, Paul R. Brass papers, 1954-2014
  • Accession No. 5329-005, Paul R. Brass papers, approximately 1931-2013
  • Accession No. 5329-006, Paul R. Brass papers, approximately 1942-2015
  • Accession No. 5329-007, Paul Brass papers, 1948-2016

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 


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