Anoop Chandola, Date of Birth

    

Anoop Chandola

American linguist and anthropologist

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1937

Profession: anthropologist, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Anoop Chandola

  • ?Anoop Chandola (born 24 December 1937) is an American linguist-anthropologist, originally from Pauri (Uttarakhand, India), where he was raised in a priestly Brahmin family. He was educated at the Christian Messmore Intermediate College of Pauri.
  • After completing a year of intermediate education he joined the D.A.V.
  • College of Lucknow for his second and last year of Intermediate. Before moving to the United States in 1959, Chandola was educated at the University of Allahabad and graduated with a B.A.
  • in Economics, Sanskrit, and English literature.
  • From the University of Lucknow he received an M.A.
  • in Hindi literature.
  • He subsequently obtained an M.A.
  • in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D.
  • in linguistics from the University of Chicago.
  • As a graduate student at Berkeley and Chicago, he developed the Hindi teaching program.
  • While a graduate student at Chicago he claimed in his paper "Animal Commands and their Linguistic Implications" (Word, Issue 2, 203-207, 1963) that languages such as Garhwali contain peripheral linguistic features found in certain behaviors, such as communicating with domestic or wild animals.
  • His Ph.D.
  • dissertation (1965) presents the first syntax of Garhwali, a central Pahari language of the Indo-Aryan group.
  • He is one of the founders of the Linguistics Program at the University of Arizona.
  • At the University of Arizona, he developed a Hindi program where he taught Hindi with his new method of language teaching.
  • He named this method "Language-Culture Lab" where students perform various native cultural activities speaking the native language only.
  • His published researches also include the Garhwali "pandau" rap dance-music based on the ancient Mahabharata epic.
  • His writings reflect his pro-Dalit and pro-women stand.
  • He believes in animal rights. He and his wife Sudha live in Tucson and also in Seattle with their son, Manjul Varn Chandola, a Seattle/Tacoma lawyer [1].

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