Robert Frykenberg
Expert in South Asia (India): cultures, governance, history, peoples, public affairs, religions, societies, Christianity and Hindu fundamentalism
Professor emeritus, history, South Asian studies College of Letters and Science — Home and cell phones available upon request refryken@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Christianity in India, earliest beginnings to the present
- Hindutva: the sacred in Indian politics
- India's Raj: From Indian Empire to Indian Nation
- India and the East India Company, 1639 to 1858
- Local Influence on central authority in Indian history
Achievements
- Author, "Christianity in India: From Beginnings to the Present," University of Oxford Press, 2008
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society, Royal Asiatic Society (both UK)
- Murdoch (Australia) University International Scholar, lectures on "Christianities in Asia: Portraits of Their Pasts," 2009
- Author, "History & Belief: The Foundations of Historical Understanding," 1986