Granville “Red” Austin, a leading scholar of India’s constitution, was an ICWA fellow in the country from 1960 to 1966. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he earned a doctorate in modern Indian history from Oxford University and worked as a journalist and photographer before serving with the US Information Service, Department of State, and Department of Health, Education and Welfare as well as on the staff of a US senator. His published two seminal political histories, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation and Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. In 2011, he received the Padma Shri award, India’s fourth-highest civilian honor, in recognition of his writing on the framing and working of the Indian constitution.