Anoop Chandola

Anoop Chandola (born 24th December 1937), is an American linguist-anthropologist, originally from Pauri (Uttarakhand)India, where he was raised in a priestly Brahmin family.

He was educated at the Christian Messmore Intermediate College of Pauri. After completing a year of intermediate education he joined the DAV College of Lucknow for his second and last year of intermediate.

Before moving to the USA in 1959, Chandola was educated at the universities of Allahabad and Lucknow where he graduated with university degrees in Sanskrit, English, and Hindi literature. His last two degrees in linguistics include an MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D from the University of Chicago.

Chandola is considered an international authority on Indian culture.

He lives in Tucson Arizona, USA, with his wife Sudha

Career

Chandola has taught Indian literature, culture, and religion at several universities in India and the USA, including Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University, the M.S. University of Baroda, University of California at Berkeley, University of Washington at Seattle, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Wisconsin at Madison

He is a member of numerous professional associations including the American Anthropological Association, Association for Asian Studies, Linguistic Society of America, and Linguistic Society of India.

Though he retired as Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona in 2003, his writing career continues. He has written twelve books and a series of articles. He is a frequent guest lecturer on Hinduism and related religions.

Academic Books

* Music As Speech: An Ethnomusicolinguistic Study of India (Published by Navrang Publishers, New Delhi)

* "The Way to True Worship: Popular Story of Hinduism" (Published by The University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London)

* "Folk Drumming in the Himalayas: Linguistic Approach to Music" (Published by The AMS Press. Research supported by the US National Science Foundation)

* "Systematic Translation of Hindi-Urdu into English" (Published by The University of Arizona Press)

* "Situation to Sentence: Evolutionary Method for Descriptive Linguistics" (Published by AMS Press, New York)

* "Contactics: The Daily Drama of Human Contact" (Published by The University Press of America)

* "On the non-existence of phrase and transformation : VP and the brain operations" (Published by The University of North Carolina)

* "Mystic and Love Poetry of Medieval Hindi: With Introduction, Texts, Grammar, Notes, Translations and Glossary" (Published by Scholarly Press, Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers)

Novels

* "The Dharma Videos of Lust: Mysteries of Indian Religions" (Published by The UKA Press)

Reviews, Awards and Interviews

* Finalist, 'Religious Fiction' category of the Best Books 2006 National Book Awards. [http://www.USABookNews.com]

* Anoop Chandola interview, Anil Aggrawal Internet Journal of Book Reviews [http://www.geradts.com/anil/br/vol_001_no_002/reviews/f_books/interview.html]
* The Dharma Videos of Lust, reviews The UKA Press [http://ukapress.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=111]

Articles

* "Ritualism and Contactism." In The Nature and Function of Ritual, 25-35, ed. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, Greenwood Publishing (2000)

* "A Cognitive Framework for mens rea and actus reas." With M. Varn Chandola, The Tulsa Law Journal, 35. 383-397 (2000)

* "Free Human Movement!: The Border Problem of Peace." Man in Asia, 9.1:15-23 (1996)

* "Ordered Rules for the Full Sentence Translation: A Neural Network Realization and a Case Study for Hindi and English." With Abhijit Mahalanobis, Pattern Recognition, 27. 515-521 (1994)

* "On Practical Hinduism: The Puja as Human Contact." The Mankind Quarterly, 29. 353-71 (1987)

* "Myth and Symbolism in Religion: A Hot Ladle Licking Case from the Garhwal Himalayas." In The Himalayan Heritage, 189-199, ed. Delhi: Gian Prakash House

* "A Theoretical Framework for Hindi Syntax.' In Topics in Hindi Linguistics, 2. 1-15, ed. New Delhi: Bahri Publications (1982)

* "Ethnomusicolinguistics and Trance." Journal of Social Research, 15. 1-6 (1980)

* "Stress Behavior in Musicolinguistics." In The Performing Arts (World Anthropology). Proceedings of IX International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, ed. The Hague: Mouton (1979)

* "Musicolinguistics in Literary Esthetics." In To Honor A.A. Hill, Linguistic and Literary Studies IV, ed. The Hague: Mouton (1979)

* "An Evolutionary Approach to Sentence Formation." Linguistics, 150. 15-46 (1975)

* "Some Systems of Musical Scales] and Linguistic Principles." Semiotica, 2.135-150 (1970)

External Links

[http://www.univpress.com] The University Press of America

[http://www.uapress.arizona.edu] The University of Arizona Press

[http://www.amspressinc.com] The AMS Press

[http://www.ukapress.com] The UKA Press

[http://www.a1books.co.in/searchresult.do?vendorId=36-99-119-44-97-73-197-111] Today and Tomorrow’s Printers and Publishers

[http://www.scholarlypress.si.edu] Scholarly Press

[http://www.aaanet.org] American Anthropological Association

[http://www.lsadc.org] Linguistic Society of America

[http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/india/religion.htm] India's Religion and Philosopy

[http://www.navrangbooks.com/?Page=AboutUs] Navrang Publishers