![]() ![]() In the summer of 2013, I spent two months as a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, and I rented part of their house for the duration of my fellowship. I had long known these books, but last year I got to know Red and his wife, Nancy, as my landlord and landlady. In 2011, he was awarded a Padma Shri by the government of India. His name is known in India because of two definitive books that he wrote, one about the making of the Indian Constitution ( Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, 1966), and the other about the trajectory of that Constitution over nearly 40 years of its existence ( Working a Democratic Constitution, 1999). Granville “Red” Austin, 87, passed away at his home on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on July 6. ![]()
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