Iyer, Raghavan, 1930-1995 (Personal Name)

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Wikipedia, Oct. 30, 2012 : Raghavan N. Iyer (Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer was an Indian academic and philosopher. Born in Madras, India on 10 March 1930, Iyer was the son of Narasimhan Iyer and Lakshmi Iyer, and was educated at the University of Bombay, at Elphinstone College. He attended Oxford University as the only Rhodes Scholar from India in 1950. He graduated with a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He attended Magdalen College (1950-1953) and Nuffield College (1953-54), and went on to receive his doctorate from Oxford in 1962, while serving as a fellow of St Antony's College. After stints teaching at the Universities of Oslo, Ghana and Chicago, he moved to California in 1964 to become a member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and then a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the founder of the local branch of the United Lodge of Theosophists and also founded the Institute of World Culture in 1976, where he served as President until 1986. Iyer died of complications resulting from pneumonia on 20 June 1995.)