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	'''Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer''' (10 March 1930 - 20 June 1995) was an ~~[[India]]n~~ academic, political theorist and [[philosopher]]. Educated at Oxford, he was professor of political science at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] from 1965 to 1986, when he retired as professor emeritus. A founding member of the Santa Barbara branch of the [[United Lodge of Theosophists]], he also co-founded the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara in 1976, and remained its president until 1986.		'''Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer''' (10 March 1930 - 20 June 1995) was an Indian academic, political theorist and [[philosopher]]. Educated at Oxford, he was professor of political science at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] from 1965 to 1986, when he retired as professor emeritus. A founding member of the Santa Barbara branch of the [[United Lodge of Theosophists]], he also co-founded the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara in 1976, and remained its president until 1986.

	==Early life and background==		==Early life and background==

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'''Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer''' (10 March 1930 - 20 June 1995) was an [[India]]n academic, political theorist and [[philosopher]]. Educated at Oxford, he was professor of political science at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] from 1965 to 1986, when he retired as professor emeritus. A founding member of the Santa Barbara branch of the [[United Lodge of Theosophists]], he also co-founded the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara in 1976, and remained its president until 1986.

==Early life and background==
Born in [[Madras]] (now Chennai), India on 10 March 1930, Iyer was the son of Narasimhan Iyer and Lakshmi Iyer. A child prodigy, at age 15, he joined the [[University of Bombay]], at [[Elphinstone College]], where he met Nandini Nanak Mehta who would later become his wife.<ref name="UofC">[http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb238nb0fs&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00039&toc.depth=1&toc.id= University of California: In Memoriam, 1995]</ref><ref name=ind>{{cite news|last=Tam Dalyell|author-link=Tam Dalyell|title=OBITUARY:Raghavan Iyer |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryraghavan-iyer-1590756.html|accessdate=27 September 2013|newspaper=[[The Independent]] | location=London | date=10 July 1995}}</ref> Aged 18, he started teaching at the University of Bombay; however, in 1950, he went to attend [[Oxford University]] as the only [[Rhodes Scholar]] from India.<ref name=ind/> He graduated with a [[British undergraduate degree classification|First]] in [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics]]. He attended [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] (1950–1953) and [[Nuffield College, Oxford|Nuffield College]] (1953–54), where he became known as an orator and debater.<ref name=ind/><ref>[http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/RNI_cv.php Curriculum Vitae of Raghavan N. Iyer], [http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/RNI_biography.php Biographical sketch], The Philosophy Trust.</ref> He returned to India, married Mehta in 1956, and started working with the Government of India briefly, before returning to Britain,<ref name=ind/> where he went on to receive his doctorate from Oxford in 1962, while serving as a fellow of [[St Antony's College, Oxford|St Antony's College]].

==Career==
After stints teaching at the Universities of [[University of Oslo|Oslo]], [[University of Ghana|Ghana]] and [[University of Chicago|Chicago]], he moved to California in 1964 to become a member of the [[Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions]], a think-tank run by [[Robert Maynard Hutchins|Robert Hutchins]] that assembled many of the great minds of the time. He was a professor of political science at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] from 1965 to 1986, where he later became professor emeritus.<ref name=ind/> He received standing ovations in packed classrooms for his memorable, entertaining, and seemingly improvised lectures. As a teacher, Iyer was an inspiration for many generations of students; accessible, kind, and eccentric, with a breadth of knowledge that was unique and engaging.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/24/obituaries/raghavan-narasimhan-iyer-65-an-expert-on-east-west-cultures.html | work=The New York Times | first=Wolfgang | last=Saxon | title=Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer, 65, An Expert on East-West Cultures | date=24 June 1995}}</ref> Together with his wife, a professor of religious studies at Santa Barbara, he was the founder of the local branch of the [[United Lodge of Theosophists]]. Iyer and his wife also founded the [[Institute of World Culture]] in 1976, and was its president until 1986.<ref name="UofC" />

His major books include ''The Glass Curtain'', ''[http://www.concordgrovepress.org/books/social_vision/Parapolitics.php Parapolitics: Toward the City of Man]'', and ''[http://www.concordgrovepress.org/books/social_vision/Moral_Political_Thought_Mahatma_Gandhi.php The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi]''. He also put together two collections of Gandhi's own writings (''The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi'' and ''The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi'').

Iyer lived in [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]], where he died of complications resulting from [[pneumonia]] on 20 June 1995 at a local hospital. He was survived by his wife Nandini Mehta Iyer, and son [[Pico Iyer]] (b. 1957), a noted writer.<ref name=nyt/>

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
*{{cite news|last=Tam Dalyell|author-link=Tam Dalyell|title=OBITUARY:Raghavan Iyer |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryraghavan-iyer-1590756.html|accessdate=29 June 2010|newspaper=[[The Independent]] | location=London | date=10 July 1995}}
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4D91338F937A15755C0A963958260 Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer, 65, An Expert on East-West Cultures], ''[[New York Times]]''. By Wolfgang Saxon. 24 June 1995.

== External links ==
*[http://www.worldculture.org/pages/2_founders.html Founders tribute] at The Institute of World Culture
*[http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/RNI_biography.php Biographical Sketch of Raghavan N. Iyer], at the Theosophy Trust Memorial Library

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