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Prof. Howard Spodek

Temple University, PA

Prof. Howard Spodek delivering a lecture during the seminar

Professor Howard Spodek: is the professor at the Department of History, Temple University, PA, USA. Prof. Spodek has lived in India for a total of seven years over a period of 30 years. He is very close to some of the Indian Jewish community called the Bene Israel that live in Gujarat, India. Prof. Spodek has experienced some of India’s difficult and volatile periods first hand while living in India.

 

Professor Spodek’s publications include:

Urban-Rural Integration in Regional Development: A Case Study of Saurashtra, India, 1800-1960 (1960). "Rulers, Merchants, and Other Groups in the City-States of Saurashtra, India, ca. 1800," Comparative Studies in Society and History (1974). "Studying the History of Urbanization in India," Journal of Urban History (1980) and"From Gandhi to Violence: The 1985 Ahmedabad Riots in Historical Perspective," Modern Asian Studies (1989). He was the Co-Editor of Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia (1993).

 

 

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