~ Sri Raghavan Iyer ~
MEMORIAL LIBRARY

 





Sri Raghavan Iyer
 March 10, 1930 - June 20, 1995





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~ Sri Raghavan Iyer ~
MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Curriculum Vitae of Raghavan N. Iyer

Professor Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer, M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon)
Date and Place of Birth:

March 10, 1930 (Madras, India)

Date and Place of Death:

June 20, 1995 (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

Education:

Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School, Bombay, 1934- 1936
St. James College, Calcutta, 1936- 1938
St. Bede’s High School, Madras, 1938- 1940
Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School, Bombay, 1940- 1944
Elphinstone College, Bombay, 1944- 1950
School of Economics & Sociology, University of Bombay, 1948- 1950
Magdalen College, Oxford, 1950- 1953
Nuffield College, Oxford, 1953- 1954
Intermediate Arts, University of Bombay, 1946 (First Class First)
B.A. (Economics), University of Bombay, 1948 (First Class First)
B.A. (Philosophy, Politics & Economics), University of Oxford, 1954 (First Class Honours)
M.A., University of Oxford, 1956
D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1962

Career:

Fellow & Lecturer in Politics, Elphinstone College, Bombay, 1948- 1949
Director, Indian Institute of World Culture, Bangalore, 1954- 1955
Associate Editor, The Aryan Path, Bombay, 1954- 1955
Chief Research Officer to the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi, 1955- 1956
Fellow and Lecturer in Politics, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1956- 1964
Consultant, Friends International Seminar, Kranj, Yugoslavia, 1958
Consultant, Parliamentary Group for World Government, London, 1957- 1964
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Jan- Mar, 1958
Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Chicago, Winter 1963
Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, 1962
Visiting Professor, Erasmus Seminar, Netherlands, 1962
Visiting Professor, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Spring 1964
Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1964- 1965
Consultant, Encylopaedia Britannica, 1964- 1966
Consultant, Fund for the Republic, Santa Barbara, 1964- 1969
Consultant, Management Development Institute, Sacramento, 1969- 1971
Alton Brooks Professor of Religion, University of Southern California, 1985
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1965- 1986; Professor Emeritus, after July 1986

Clubs, Societies, Professional and Non-Profit Organizations:

Founder-Secretary, The Elphinstone College Student’s Executive, 1946- 1948
Founder-Editor, The Elphinstone College Wall-Paper (daily bulletin), 1946- 1948
Member, National Preparatory Committee, National Union of Students, 1949- 1950
Chief Delegate, World Union of Students, Mysore & Bombay, 1950
President, The Oxford Union, Spring 1954
President, The Oxford Majlis, Spring 1951
President, The Oxford University Peace Association, Michelmas, 1951
President, The Oxford Social Studies Association, 1952
President, The Voltaire Society, Winter 1953
Founder, The Plotinus Society, Winter 1953
Delegate, World Government Conference, Copenhagen, 1954
Director, Seminar on World Religions, Bangalore, 1955
Senior Treasurer, Oxford University Socratic Club, 1959- 1964
Member of Executive Committee, World Association of World Federalists, The Hague, 1957- 1958
Consultant & Lecturer, International Seminar on "Ideological Diversity and World Peace", Friends International Centre, Kranj, Yugoslavia, 1958
Consultant & Lecturer, International Conference on the Establishment of a World University, Switzerland,
1959Lecturer, Conference of World Thinkers on Ideology and Industrial Society, Rheinfelden, Switzerland, 1959
Senior Treasurer, Oxford University Porphyry Society, 1959
Senior Treasurer, Oxford University Buddhist Society, 1958- 1964
Consultant, OXFAM, 1963- 1964
Director of Studies, UNESCO Conference in Oxford on "Mutual Understanding Between the Orient and the Occident", May 1958
Member, Political Studies Association, England, 1958- 1980
Member, Mind Association, England, 1958- 1974
Member, American Society for Legal and Political Philosophy, 1969- 1984
Member, The American Political Science Association, 1975- 1977
Member, The American Academy of Political Science, 1980- 1983
Life Member, The Indian Political Science Association, since 1979
Editorial Consultant, Nigerian Journal of Philosophy, 1981- 1983
Member, Jazz and World Music Society, 1981- 1986
Board of Advisers, The American Biographical Institute, 1982—1983
Member, International Political Studies Association, 1970- 1985
Member, The Club of Rome, 1971- 1982
Member, The American Association for the Club of Rome, 1980- 1982
Member, The World Futures Studies Federation, 1983- 1985
Member, The Reform Club, London, since 1978

Awards:

J.C.P. D’Andrade Senior Debating Trophy, Elphinstone College, 1944- 1948
J.C.P. D’Andrade Junior Debating Trophy, Elphinstone College, 1944- 1946
Lord Brabourne Inter-Collegiate Elocution Trophy, 1947, 1949- 1950
D.N. Sirur Inter-Collegiate Debating Trophy, 1946, 1947
Hughlings Prize for English, University of Bombay, 1946
Wordsworth Scholarship for Politics & Economics, University of Bombay, 1946
Merit Scholar, Elphinstone College, 1945- 1948
Managing Editor, The Elphinstonian, 1947- 1948
The Telang Medal, Elphinstone College, 1946
The Gokhale Prize, Elphinstone College, 1948
Elected Mr. Elphinstonian, 1946- 1949
James Taylor Prize for Economics, University of Bombay, 1948
Seth Jeshingbhai Prize, 1950
Chancellor’s Gold Medal, 1950
Rhodes Scholar, 1950- 1953
Sheppard Exhibition, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1952
Senior Mackinnon Scholar, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1953- 1954
Ford Foundation Grant, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1960
Humanities Institute Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1967
Professor of the Year, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1983
Gold Medallion, Accademia Italia, 1984

Bibliography:

Contemporary Authors, 1974, 1981, 1986
Who’s Who in the West, 1974
Dictionary of International Biography, 1979- 1984
Personaggi Contemporanei, 1984
Who’s Who in California, 1987






Self-Magnetization

This is the choice life continually affords to a human being. Either one chooses to become more deliberate and ideative by the magnetizing power of thought, functioning in terms of manifold cycles rather than the overall cycle of the gross astral, and so, by the power of higher thought, discovering and giving significance, beauty and meaning to life-atoms at each stage. Or one can merely be emotional, using language and thought to rationalize emotion, building up an ego and defending it, corroding the channels of connection between the higher and the lesser vestures till there is an atrophy of creative centres. After a point, the more one does this, the harder it is to gain the power of attention, to hold an idea, to become completely absorbed in a therapeutic teaching. Instead, through self-examination and meditation, one ought to learn to take advantage of the properties and powers of the higher which do not belong to the same cycles that work upon the lower vestures. So, to achieve a total renovation of the lower vestures from the standpoint of the immortal individuality will take many years. One must be willing to look back at seven, fourteen, twenty-one years of life and courageously acknowledge the chaotic patterns of so-called thinking and feeling which mauled, weakened and atrophied the constructive, creative and consecrating powers of the correlative faculty of Manas reflected in all these vestures. Without either being irresponsibly fatalistic, or delusively emotional, one must acknowledge that a thorough renewal requires many years of courageous effort. Damage done over a long time can have no instant solution. To succumb to the flattery that suggests otherwise is to deny oneself the opportunity to learn properly the alchemical art of self-regeneration.

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HERMES,
August 1982
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