Maddela Abel Explained

Maddela Abel
Birth Date:1923 12, df=yes[1]
Birth Place:Pedda Vangali, Chagalamarri Mandal, Kurnool district (Andhra Pradesh)
Nationality:Indian
Other Names:Abel Ayyagaru
Occupation:Teaching
Period:1950-2012
Known For:Political Science
Professor
Boards:
Children:
  • Dharmaraj Abel,[3]
  • Kalavathy Abel-Rajkumar,
  • Deepthi Abel-Sukumar,
  • Rekha Abel
Education:
Alma Mater:
Thesis Title:American Economic and Technical Aid Programs in India, 1950-1961
Thesis Url:https://books.google.com/books?id=I0scAQAAMAAJ&q=maddela+abel+california
Thesis Year:1963
Doctoral Advisor:H. Arthur Steiner[4]
Workplaces:
Notable Ideas:Revival of University administration[5]

Maddela Abel (30 December 1923 – 27 November 2012) was an Indian political scientist. He was a prominent educationist, well known among University circles[6] for his administration[7] and served as Principal of Madras Christian College (1978–1981) and Vice Chancellor of Sri Krishnadevaraya University (1981–87).

Early life and education

Abel was born in Pedda Vangali, a village in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh (AP). He studied BA in Andhra Christian College (1945–48), and MA in Madras Christian College (1948–50). After teaching for several years at Madras Christian College (MCC), he went to University of California, Los Angeles on a Fulbright/Smith-Mundt Scholarship, earning a PhD in international relations in 1963.[8] A member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, he received the Danforth Foundation Fellowship in 1960 and was also named "best foreign student."

Career

Abel was Professor of Political Science in MCC from 1950, and Principal of MCC, 1978-81. The Government of AP then invited him to be the first Vice-Chancellor of Sri Krishnadevaraya University (1981–87). Thereafter, he served as the first Vice-Chairman of AP State Council of Higher Education (1987–88).

He was an Executive Member of National Council of Churches in India, Executive Member of the Church of South India (CSI) Synod, and the President of the Christian Literature Society (CLS). CSI commissioned Abel to study the life, service and witness of the church. The outcome was the report, The Church of South India after Thirty Years. Report of the Abel Commission (CLS, 1978). It spoke of several reforms the Church in India needed to undertake.[9]

Abel was awarded DLitt by Sri Krishnadevaraya University in 2005.

Writings

Apart from several Endowment Lectures, Abel also published numerous articles and several books. His articles deal with the areas of political administration, ideologies, economic development, subaltern studies, Dalit concerns, Christian higher education, and church administration.

In books

In journals

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Andy Silveira on Abel, Maddela in Anand Amaladass (Edited), Indian Christian Thinkers, Volume 2, Satya Nilayam Publications, Chennai, 2006, pp.1-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=I9JAAQAAIAAJ&q=pedda+vangali
  2. National Council of Churches Review, Volume 103, 1983, p.458. https://books.google.com/books?id=6_3YAAAAMAAJ&q=abel
  3. M. Abel, Glimpses Of Indian National Movement, ICFAI Books, Hyderabad, 2005. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ox3WE2GCbNAC&lpg=PA301&q=icfai+books+abel+rekha
  4. Dissertation Abstracts, Volume 24, 1964, p.5508. https://books.google.com/books?id=I0scAQAAMAAJ&q=maddela+abel+california
  5. Bulletin of Madras Institute of Development Studies, Volume 4, 1974, p.51. https://books.google.com/books?id=YrcxAAAAMAAJ&q=abel+committee+university+india
  6. Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 23, Issue 3, 1988, p.1615. https://books.google.com/books?id=ebIXAQAAMAAJ&q=abel
  7. Report of the UGC Committee Towards New Educational Management, 1990.http://14.139.60.153/bitstream/123456789/138/1/Report-Report%20of%20the%20UGC%20Committee%20towards%20new%20Educational%20Management.pdf
  8. Winston W. Crouch (Compiled), A History of the Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1920-1987, The Department of Political Science, Los Angeles, June 1987, p.76.https://polisci.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/PSHistorysm.pdf
  9. http://www.savecsi.net/2010/08/csi-after-sixty-years.html K. C. Abraham, CSI after sixty years

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