Francine R. Frankel (born 1935) is founding director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India and Professor of Political Science at the

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. An authority on India's politics, economics and foreign policy, she spent Academic Year 2006-07 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars completing a book on U.S. and India foreign policy using declassified documents and archival sources.

Education and career

Frankel received her

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from the

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in 1965, after completing her Masters from the

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School of Advanced International Studies in 1958. Additionally, Frankel has been a research scholar at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and the

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, The

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in Princeton, and

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. In 1992, Frankel founded the Center for the Advanced Study of India, the only academic research center in the United States for the study of India. The Center collaborates with other institutions in the US, India and elsewhere to carry out its goal of nurturing a new generation of scholars across disciplines and providing a forum for dialogue among the academic, business and foreign policy communities.

Books

Written

* Frankel, Francine (1971) ''India's green revolution: Economic gains and political costs'', Princeton University Press. * Frankel, Francine (1978) ''India's Political Economy, 1947-1977: The Gradual Revolution'', Princeton Univ Press. * Frankel, Francine (1995) ''The Nonproliferation Treaty'', University Press of America. * Frankel, Francine (2005) ''India's Political Economy 1947-2004: The Gradual Revolution, 2nd Edition,'' Oxford University Press. * Frankel, Francine (2006) ''India's Political Economy,'' Oxford University Press. * Frankel, Francine (2020) '' When Nehru Looked East, '' Oxford University Press.

Edited

* Frankel, Francine; Rao, M.S.A. (1990) ''Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order, Volume 1,'' Oxford University Press. * Frankel, Francine; Rao, M.S.A. (1990) ''Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order, Volume 2'', Oxford University Press. * Frankel, Francine; Hasan Zoya; Bhargava, Rajeev, Arora, Balveer (2002) ''Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy'', Oxford University Press, 2002. * Frankel, Francine; Harding, Harry (2004) ''The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know'', Columbia University Press.

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