LEONARD, John Greenfield. Los Angeles 18.3.1936 — Arizona 9.11.1985. U.S. Historian. Son of Charles Mather Leonard (1908–1978) and Gladys Greenfield Harris. Studies at Stanford (B.A. 1959) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1962). Ph.D. 1970. At University of Wisconsin (1967), from 1968-73 at University of California in San Diego (1973). Then worked in business in Los Angeles. Died in a mountain climbing accident. Married with Karen Isaksen Leonard (b. 1939), an anthropologist, one son and one daughter.
Publications: “Politics and Social Change in South India: A Study of the Andhra Movement”, Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies 5, 1967, 60-77.
– “Urban Government Under the Raj: A Case Study of Municipal Administration in 19th Century South India”, Modern Asian Studies 2, 1973, 227-251.
– Diss. 1970 publ. as Kandukuri Viresalingam. A Biography of an Indian Social Reformer. Edited by
Karen I. Leonard. 15+308 p. Telugu Univ. Publ. 120. Hyderabad 1991.
– With Karen I. Leonard: “Viresalingam and the Ideology od Social Change in Andhra”, K. W. Jones (ed.), Religious Controversy in British India. Albany 1992, 151-176, 269-280.
Sources: Introduction to his diss. 1991; ancestors.familysearch.org; death in L.A. Times 12.11.1985.
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