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 DAV College of Lucknow for his second and last year of intermediate.
Before moving to the USA in 1959, Chandola was educated at the universities of Allahabad and Lucknow where he graduated with university degrees in Economics, Sanskrit, English, and Hindi literature. He subsequently obtained an MA in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago.
He and his wife Sudha live in Tucson and also in Seattle with their son, Manjul Varn Chandola, a Seattle/Tacoma based DUI lawyer [1].
Chandola has taught Indian literature, culture, and religion at several universities in India and the USA, including Sardar Patel University, the M.S. University of Baroda, the University of California, Berkeley, University of Washington-Seattle, University of Texas-Austin, and University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He is a member of the American Anthropological Association, Association for Asian Studies, Linguistics Society of America, and Linguistic Society of India.
Though he retired as Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona in 2003, his writing career continues. He is a frequent guest lecturer on Hinduism and related religions.
Chandola has written scholarly books and articles primarily in the areas of linguistics, music, religion and literature which includes extensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis. He founded the field of musicolinguistics based on coining the term, arguing for its creation and laying a theoretical framework for the discipline.
Chandola is also a novelist who covers multicultural themes with an Indo-American focus. His novels use ancient Indian mythology and religion extensively to understand modern social problems.
"Hindi Newspaper Reader" With Colin P. Masica, C.M. Naim, John Roberts (University of Chicago)
"The Poems of Surdas" With S. M. Pandey and Norman H. Zide (University of Chicago)
"A Premchand Reader" With Norman H. Zide, Colin P. Masica, K.C. Bahl (East-West Center Press, Honolulu)
Music As Speech: An Ethnomusicolinguistic Study of India (Published by Navrang Publishers, New Delhi)
The Way to True Worship: Popular Story of Hinduism (Published by The University Press of America, Lanham, New York City, London)
Folk Drumming in the Himalayas: Linguistic Approach to Music (Published by The AMS Press. Research supported by the US National Science Foundation)
Systematic Translation of Hindi-Urdu into English (Published by The University of Arizona Press)
Situation to Sentence: Evolutionary Method for Descriptive Linguistics (Published by AMS Press, New York)
Contactics: The Daily Drama of Human Contact (Published by The University Press of America)
On the non-existence of phrase and transformation : VP and the brain operations (Published by The University of North Carolina)
Mystic and Love Poetry of Medieval Hindi: With Introduction, Texts, Grammar, Notes, Translations and Glossary (Published by Scholarly Press)
In the Himalayan Nights (Published by Savant Books and Publications LLC ISBN 978-0-9829987-0-0, March 2012)
The Dharma Videos of Lust: Mysteries of Indian Religions (Published by UKA Press ISBN 978-1-905796-15-1, October 26, 2005)
The Second Highest World War: The Rama Theater (Published by iUniverse ISBN 978-0-595-22229-2, April 2, 2002)
Discovering Brides (Published by iUniverse ISBN 978-0-595-09900-9, July 21, 2000)
"Myth and Punishment" (Published by Black Opal Books, ISBN 978-1-626947-05-4, July 15, 2017)
Reviews, awards and interviews
Finalist, The Best Books Awards, USA Book News, for "The Dharma Videos of Lust," 2006. [2]
Finalist, the National Indie Excellence Awards for "The Dharma Videos of Lust," 2009
Finalist, ForeWord Reviews Awards for "In the Himalayan Nights," 2013
Honorable Mention Award of Great Northwest Book Festival for "In the Himalayan Nights," 2013
Anoop Chandola interview, Anil Aggrawal Internet Journal of Book Reviews [3]
"The Dharma Videos of Lust" reviewed [4] by Arup Chakraborty, Hindustan Times, by Alexis Blue Lo Que Pasa; by J.C. Martin The Arizona Daily Star; Ellen Tanner Marsh, Best Seller Author of New York Times; Michael Witzel, the Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
"In the Himalayan Nights" reviewed by Glen Jennings in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal; by Grady Harp, Top 50 Amazon Reviewer; by Laurie Hanan, Author; by Jane Li, Author; by Christine Wald-Hopkins in Tucson Weekly; by Ekraz Singh in Existere: A Journal of Arts and Literature, York University; by Sukriti Tolani in The Hindustan Times
