Hay, Stephen N.
Biography
Born: Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 4, 1925. Married: Eloise Knapp, 1954; children: Catherine and Edward. Eloise died: 1996. Married: Elizabeth White, ca. 2000/2001. Died: Santa Barbara, March 25, 2001.
U.S. Army, 1944-1946.
- Education:
- Deep Springs and Haverford Colleges, 1942-1944.
- London School of Economics, 1946-1947.
- B.A. Swarthmore College, 1951.
- M.A. Harvard, 1953.
- Ph.D. Harvard, 1957.
- Travel and Research Abroad:
- Middle East and India, 1947-1949.
- India, 1955-1956 (Ford Foundation).
- India, 1959-1960 (Fulbright).
- India, 1970-1971 (Fulbright-Hays).
- Professional Career:
- Instructor to Assistant Professor History, University of Chicago, 1956-1964.
- Research Associate and Tutor, Harvard University, 1964-1966.
- Associate Professor to Professor of history, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966-1991. Courses and seminars on the history of India and Southeast Asia, "Gandhi and Modern India," "Great Minds in World History."
- Awards:
- Co-winner, Watumull Prize (History of South Asia), 1958 and 1970.
- Literary Award, Silver Medal, Commonwealth Club of California, 1970.
- Books published or edited:
- Sources of Indian Tradition, co-compiler (1958).
- Southeast Asian History: A Bibliographic Guide, co-editor (1962).
- Dialogue between a Theist and an Idolater (Brahma-pauttalik samvad): An 1820 Tract probably by Rammohun Roy, editor (1964).
- A Guide to Books on Southeast Asian History, 1961-1966, co-editor (1969).
- South Asia: A Bibliographic Guide for Undergraduate Libraries, co-editor (1970).
- Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India (1970).
- Sources of Indian Tradition (1988).
- Articles and shorter pieces include:
- "Rabindrinath Tagore in U.S.A." Fulbright Newsletter 8, 3 (April 1961): 1, 3.
- "The Origins of Tagore's Message to the World," Quest (May 1961): 50-54.
- "Tagore's Message to the World: Reply," Quest (July/Sept. 1961): 91-93.
- "Rabindranath Tagore in America," American Quarterly 15 (1962): 439-63.
- "The Developments of Tagore's Views on the Meeting of 'East' and 'West'," Trudy dvadtsat' pyatogo mezhdunarodnogo kongressa vostokovedov (Proceeding of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Orientalists, 1960), 4 (1963): 201-211.
- "Comment: The Humanistic Uses of Asian Economic History," in Approaches to Asian Civilization (1964).
- "Western and Indigenous Elements in Modern Indian Thought: The Case of Rammohun Roy," in Changing Japanese Attitudes toward Modernization (1965): 311-28.
- "India [1717-1939]," in An Encyclopedia of World History (1968): 573-74, 900-4, 1101-4.
- "Ethical Politics: Gandhi's Meaning for Our Time," Asia, no. 16 (1969): 29-47.
- "Between Two Worlds: Gandhi's First Impressions of British Culture," Modern Asian Studies 3 (1969): 305-19.
- "Jain Influences on Gandhi's Early Thought," in Gandhi, India, and the World (1970): 14-23.
- "Gandhi's First Five Years," in Encounter with Erikson: Historical Interpretation and Religious Biography (1977): 67-112.
- "Understanding Gandhi's Ways," Bulletin, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University (Spring 1978): 6-16.
- "Tagore in America," Chapter 1 in Rabindranath Tagore, American Interpretations (1981).
- "Attenborough's Gandhi," film review, Public Historian 5, 3 (1983): 85-94.
- "Digging up Gandhi's Psychological Roots," Biography 6, 3 (1983): 209-19.
- "The Making of a late-Victorian Hindu: M. K. Gandhi in London, 1888-1891," Victorian Studies (Autumn 1989): 75-98.
From the guide to the Stephen N. Hay Papers, ca. 1910s-1990s, (University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections)
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