Maddela Abel
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Abel in 2006, Hyderabad, India
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Born | (1923-12-30)30 December 1923[1]
Pedda Vangali, Chagalamarri Mandal, Kurnool district (Andhra Pradesh)[1]
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Died | 27 November 2012(2012-11-27) (aged 88) |
Nationality | Indian |
Other names | Abel Ayyagaru |
Occupation | Teaching |
Years active | 1950-2012 |
Known for | Political Science[1] |
Title | Professor |
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Thesis | American Economic and Technical Aid Programs in India, 1950-1961 (1963[2]) |
Doctoral advisor | H. Arthur Steiner[2] |
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Notable ideas | Revival of University administration[4] |
Maddela Abel (30 December 1923 – 27 November 2012) was an Indian political scientist. He was a prominent educationist, well known among University circles[7] for his administration[8] and served as Principal of Madras Christian College (1978–1981) and Vice ChancellorofSri Krishnadevaraya University (1981–87).
Abel was born in Pedda Vangali, a village in Kurnool districtofAndhra 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.[9] A member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, he received the Danforth Foundation Fellowship in 1960 and was also named "best foreign student."
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.[10]
Abel was awarded DLitt by Sri Krishnadevaraya University in 2005.
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.
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Vice-Chancellor, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh 1981-1987 |
Succeeded by K. Venkata Reddy[1] |
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Preceded by Bennet Albert[2] |
Principal, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Tamil Nadu 1978-1981 |
Succeeded by Mithra G. Augustine[3] |
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President, Council of United Theological College, Bangalore, Karnataka |
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