Central Washington University Archives

Guide to the Political Science Department
Usha Mahajani Papers
RG 042, Ser. 06-66

Processed and Listed by: Dieter C. Ullrich
Date: August, 2006

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Date Span: 1957-1978 (bulk 1967-1976)

Size: 9.0 cubic feet.

Number of Boxes: 17 legal sized document cases; 1 half legal sized document case and 1 half letter sized document case.

Type of material: Manuscripts, research notes, correspondence and published materials.

Physical condition: Fair with some foxing of paper and fading of print.

Arrangement: Organized alphabetically by title of subject heading.

Historical or Biographical Sketch: Usha Mahajani was a professor of Political Science at Central Washington State College (presently Central Washington University) from 1967 until the time of her death in 1978. She was born in Poona, India on February 6, 1933, the daughter of Dr. Genesh Sakayam and Indumati Mahajani. She received her undergraduate degree at Rajasthan University in Jaipur in 1952 at the age of nineteen. The following year she studied at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusettes and in 1954 received her Master of Arts degree in International Relations. From 1954 to 1957, Professor Mahajani attended graduate school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she attained a Ph. D. in International Relations with a special focus on Southeast Asian politics. Her first instructing position was at Delhi University in the fall 1958. The next year she was hired as Assistant Research Officer in the Historical Division of the External Affairs Ministry of the Government of India. Three years later she relocated Canberra, Australia to participate in a research fellowship at Australian National University. Professor Mahajani was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Central Washington State College in 1967. She was promoted to full professor in 1969. She was a very active member of the anti-war movement and fought for women’s equal rights during the early and middle 1970s. She authored over eighty scholarly papers and two books on Southeast Asian history and politics. She was considered to be one of the foremost experts on the subject during the later her years of her life. Usha Mahajani passed away on September 3, 1978 from medical treatment complications related to a brain tumor.

Scope and Content Note: The bulk of the collection consists of unpublished manuscripts, research notes and correspondence of Usha Mahajani, a professor of Political Science at Central Washington State College (presently Central Washington University), from 1962 to 1978. The papers also contain copies of her published works, subject files, lecture materials, manuscripts from other authors and related ephemera. Included in the collection is a copy of her 1957 dissertation.

Research Note: Open to the public.

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Inventory List:

Box 1
1. American Foreign Aid Policy – Research note cards
2. American Foreign Aid Policy – Research notes
3. American Foreign Aid Policy – Research notes and interviews
4. American Foreign Aid Policy – Research notes, American viewpoint
5. American Foreign Aid Policy – Research notes, Southeast Asian viewpoint
6. American Foreign Aid Policy – Research notes, United Nations viewpoint
7. American prisoners of war, 1970-1972
8. Article – “Abortion: A legalized crime or legalized compassion”, 1970
9. Article – “The Bangladesh Crisis and the Arabesque of Alignments”, 1974
10. Article – “The Caste System and Social Change”, 1968
11. Article – “Comment on Dr. Eqbal Ahmad’s Notes on South Asia in Crisis”, 1972
12. Article – “Death penalty seen as social necessity”, 1976
13. Article – “The Development of Philippine Asianism”, 1965
14. Article – “Disintegration of the American Peace Movement”, 1973
15. Article – “Family Planning in India”, 1977
16. Article – “Feminism in Southeast Asia”, 1975
17. Article – “The Future of the RSS”, 1977
Box 2
1. Article – “India and the Persons of Indian Origin in Burma”
2. Article – Indian Languages
3. Article – “The Malaysia Dispute: A Study in Mediation & Intervention”, 1966
4. Article – “Martin Luther King: The Activist Gandhian”, 1970
5. Article – “Nehru, Congress and Democratic Socialism”, 1973
6. Article – “New Alignments in Asia after Vietnam”, 1976
7. Article – “Sino-American Rapprochement and the New Configurations in Southeast Asia”, 1975
8. Article – “Sino-Soviet Conflict and Rivalry in Southeast Asia in the Post-Vietnam Phase”, 1978
9. Article – “Soviet and American Aid to Indonesia, 1949-1968”, 1970
10. Article – “A Supporter Speaks Out”, 1976
11. Article – “U.S.-Chinese Detente and Prospects for China’s Rehabilitation in Southeast Asia”, 1974
12. Article – “Vietnam and After”, 1976
13. Article – “Western Impact of the Changing Roles of Women in Asia”, 1977
14. Article – “Women as Human Beings”, 1972
15. Association for Asian Studies – Annual Meetings, Correspondence, 1971-1974
16. Australian National University, 1965
17. Bandits – Correspondence and research notes, 1973-1974
18. Bangladesh Crisis – Research notes and correspondence, 1972-1974
19. Biographical information
20. Book review – “Laos in the Web of Foreign Intervention”, 1973
21. Book reviews – General, 1968-1978
Box 3
1. Burma – Indians living in Burma
2. Cambodia – Aid from China, 1959-1963
3. Cambodia – History of Economic Aid, 1961-1963
4. Cambodia – Research materials, 1959-1963
5. Cambodia – U.S. Foreign Aid, 1951-1963
6. Cambodia – U.S. Involvement, 1970-1973
7. Chemical Weapons – Vietnam, 1971-1974
8. C.I.A. – Newspaper clippings, 1974-1976
9. C.I.A. – Research notes
Box 4
1. Conferences, 1976-1978
2. Correspondence – General, 1972-1975
3. Correspondence – Laos manuscript, 1969-1970
4. Correspondence – Members of the U.S. Congress, 1970-1975
5. Correspondence – National Herald (New Delhi, India), 1974-1978
6. Correspondence – Publishers, 1974-1977
7. Correspondence – Related to editorials and presentations, 1969-1976
8. Correspondence – Related to Vietnam conflict, 1969-1974
9. Correspondence – Research travels, 1968-1970
10. Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, 1964
Box 5
1. Course – Political Science 145 – Modern Government, 1967-1973
2. Course – Political Science 398 – After Vietnam, 1976
3. Course – Political Science 398 – India and Southeast Asia, 1973
4. Course – Political Science 398 – China/U.S./U.S.S.R., 1976
5. Course – Political Science 398 – Women in Power, 1976
6. Course – Political Science 460 – Comparative Governments in Southeast Asia
7. Course – Political Science 467 – Communism in Developing Areas, 1970
8. Course – Political Science 476 – Governments in Asia, 1972
9. Course – Political Science 484 – Regional Politics in Southeast Asia, 1972-1973
10. Course – Political Science 485 – International Relations in the Far East, 1969-1973
11. Course – Political Science – China and Southeast Asia, 1973
12. Cuba – Newspaper clippings, 1962-1964
13. Department of State – “The Situation in Laos”, 1959
14. Editorials, 1976
15. Family Planning, 1972-1977
16. India – Atomic bomb
Box 6
1. India – Political Emergency, 1975-1977
2. India – Religious Rituals
3. India – Women
4. Indian and American Scholars – Research notes
5. Indian Scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences meeting, 1975
6. Indians in the U.S.A. – Research notes, 1973-1977
7. Indians living abroad – Research notes
8. International Women’s Year, 1975
9. Malaysia – Women in Politics, 1974
10. Lecture Notes – Political Science 145
11. Lecture Notes – Political Science 145
12. Lecture Notes – Political Science 145
Box 7
1. Lecture and presentations, 1965-1971
2. Laos – Research notes
3. Malaysia – Research notes on Chronology
4. Manuscript – “Abortion legalized: Where do we go from here?”
5. Manuscript – “Bandits and revolutionaries in the 1899-1906 American Philippine Conflicts”, 1974
6. Manuscript – “The Bangladesh Crisis and the Arabesque of Alignments”, 1974
7. Manuscript – Book on history of the Philippines
8. Manuscript – Book on Malaysian History
9. Manuscript – “The Cambodian Tragedy: Death of a Nation”
10. Manuscript –“Comments on Amnesty International’s Report, Background to the large scale arrest of the Political Prisoners in India”, 1975
Box 8
1. Manuscript – Editorials to the National Herald (New Delhi, India), 1970-1977
2. Manuscript – “E.R.A. and the Future of Feminism”
3. Manuscript – “Family Planning in India: New directions”, 1976
4. Manuscript – “Feminism in Southeast Asia”
5. Manuscript – “Hinduization of Southeast Asia”
6. Manuscript – “India: A case study in the Diplomacy of Aid in the Cold War”
7. Manuscript – “India: A case study in the Diplomacy of Aid in the Cold War”
8. Manuscript – “India and Southeast Asia”
9. Manuscript – “India and the People of Indian Origin Abroad”
10. Manuscript – “Indian and American Scholar”, 1973
11. Manuscript – “Indian Emergency: Why and where to now”, 1976
12. Manuscript – “Indians in America: From strangers to settlers”
13. Manuscript – “The International Control Commission in Laos”
Box 9
1. Manuscript – “Laos in the Web of International Intervention, 1876-1968” – Chapters 1-4, 1971
2. Manuscript – “Laos in the Web of International Intervention, 1876-1968” – Chapters 5-6, 1971
3. Manuscript – “Laos in the Web of International Intervention, 1876-1968” – Chapters 7-8, 1971
4. Manuscript – “Laos in the Web of International Intervention, 1876-1968” – Chapters 9, endnotes and bibliography, 1971
5. Manuscript – “The Malaysia Dispute: Changing Alliances and Emergent Understandings”, 1964
6. Manuscript – “Malaysia in the emergent Southeast Asian World”
7. Manuscript – “Malaysia in the emergent Southeast Asian World”
Box 10
1. Manuscript – “Malaysia in the emergent Southeast Asian World”
2. Manuscript – “Malaysia in the emergent Southeast Asian World”
3. Manuscript – “Malaysia: A study in the Development of Southeast Asian Subsystem”
4. Manuscript – “The Malaysia Conflict”
5. Manuscript – “The Malaysia Dispute: A study in Mediation and Intervention”
6. Manuscript – “The Mutation of the Cold War”, 1975
7. Manuscript – “New configurations in Southeast Asia: Vietnam and after”, 1975
8. Manuscript – “Oil in Southeast Asia”, 1971
9. Manuscript – “Origin and Development of U.S. Aid Policy” – Chapter 2
10. Manuscript – “Origin and Development of U.S. Aid Policy” – Chapter 2
11. Manuscript – “Origins of U.S. Involvement in Indochina”, 1972
12. Manuscript – “Parliament, the Supreme Court and Democracy”, 1973
13. Manuscript – “The Philippine/Indonesian Entente”
14. Manuscript – “Politicization and Political Power of women”, 1975
15. Manuscript – “Politicization and Political Roles of Women in Southeast Asia”
16. Manuscript – “Population Expansion and Population Control”, 1976
17. Manuscript – “Position of Women in India: Liberation or Restoration”, 1972
18. Manuscript – “Political Power of Women”, 1976
19. Manuscript – “The Prisoner of War Issue”
20. Manuscript – “Reflections on Indochina”, 1970
21. Manuscript – “Religion, Peace and Justice”, 1977
22. Manuscript – “Sino-American Rapprochement and the New Configurations in Southeast Asia”, 1975
Box 11
1. Manuscript – “The Sino-Pakistani-American Accord, The Indo-Soviet Treaty and Bangladesh”
2. Manuscript – “A Southeast Asia Tragedy: From Decolonization to Neocolonialism”, 1973
3. Manuscript – “Soviet Aid: An element in Communist Ideology”
4. Manuscript – “Spies and Spooks: The Not-so-innocent C.I.A. Abroad”, 1976
5. Manuscript – “A Swing Back to Southeast Asia”, 1975
6. Manuscript – “Transcendental Meditation and All that…”, 1976
7. Manuscript – “U.S.-Chinese Détente and Prospects for China’s Rehabilitation in Southeast Asia”
8. Manuscript – “U.S. Intervention in Laos and its Impact on Laotian Relations with Thailand and Vietnam”, 1973
9. Manuscript – “Vietnam Cease Fire”, 1973
10. Manuscript – “Western Impact on the Changing Roles of Women in Asia”
11. Manuscript – “What is in a Name? Indian or Native American”, 1974
12. Manuscript – “Women in India: Liberation or Restoration”, 1974
13. Manuscript – “Women in Southeast Asia: A Case of the Philippines”, 1972
14. Manuscript – “Women in the Philippines: Transition and Evolution”
15. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan Controversy, 1970
16. National Herald (New Delhi, India) – Editorials, 1970-1977
17. Native America – Term usage, 1974-1975
18. News releases – U.S. Government, 1972-1973
19. Newspaper clippings – Editorials, 1969-1976
20. North Vietnam, 1961-1964
21. North Vietnam – Women, 1972-1974
22. Obscenity
23. Official report of the U.S. Delegation to the International Conference on the Settlement of the Laotian Question, 1962
Box 12
1. Oil – Southeast Asia
2. Other authors – “Background to the American Intervention in Cambodia”, 1972
3. Other authors – “Battle for the Past”
4. Other authors – “Cambodia in the Vortex: Does Non-alignment have a Future?”, 1971
5. Other authors – “China and America: Limited partners in the Indian Subcontinent”
6. Other authors – “The Communist International in Theory and Practice, 1928-1935”
7. Other authors – “The Continuous Family Revolution in China”
8. Other authors – “Domestic political power balance and Foreign Policy in Indochina”
9. Other authors – “The Evolution of Satyagrah in South Africa”, 1970
10. Other authors – “Indochina and the Fourth Estate”, 1973
11. Other authors – “Indonesia’s Foreign Policy in the 1960s”, 1965
12. Other authors – “Influence, Generals and Vietnam”, 1971
13. Other authors – “The Malayan Emergency and After”
14. Other authors – “Mediation as a Method of Conflict”
15. Other authors – “The Nixon Administration Strategy in Vietnam”, 1973
16. Other authors – “The Philippine Independence Mission of 1922”, 1968
17. Other authors – “Rizal and the Philippine Revolution”, 1961
18. Other authors – “Role of Women as Heads of the Government: the Case of Mrs. Indira Gandhi”
19. Other authors – “Soviet influence in India”
20. Other authors – “Soviet Trade with Asia and the Pacific Region”
21. Other authors – “Soviet Trade with the Non-Communist Underdeveloped Countries of Asia”, 1964
22. Other authors – “Status of Women in Select Countries: A Tentative Bibliography”
23. Other authors – “Vietnam from Fragmentation to Reunification, 1945-1976”, 1976
24. Other authors – “Vietnam: How did we get there?”
25. Other authors – “U.S. / Indochina Report, 1975-1976
26. Other authors – “The U.S. and the Building of Thai Militarism”, 1976
27. Other authors – “United States Mediation in the Dutch-Indonesian Dispute over West Irian”
Box 13
1. Philippine Nationalism – Research notes
2. Philippines – Agricultural Cooperatives, 1961-1962
3. Philippines – Community development, 1956-1963
4. Philippines – Congressional records of the Republic of the Philippines, 1946-1952
5. Philippines – General notes
6. Philippines – Industrial Development Center loans, 1951-1963
7. Philippines – Newspaper clippings, 1963
8. Philippines – Public administration, 1962
9. Philippines – Public law 480, 1963
10. Philippines – Research notes
11. Philippines – U.S. Aid training participants, 1952-1962
12. Philippines – U.S. Military bases
13. Philippines – U.S. Relations – Research notes
Box 14
1. Philippines – Women, 1972
2. Philippines-Cambodia – United Stated Technical Aid, 1955-1962
3. Photographs – Lao Patriotic Women’s Organization, 1974
4. Political Prisoners in South Vietnam, 1973-1974
5. Press Releases – Vietnam (U.S. Government agencies), 1975
6. Private Enterprise and U.S. Foreign Aid – Research notes
7. Refugees, 1975-1976
8. Report on National Foreign Policy Conference for Leaders in Teacher Education, 1970
9. Report on the 29th International Congress of Orientalists – Draft, 1973
10. Research notes – Malaysia
11. Research trip to Southeast Asia, 1974
12. Results of CWSC Student – Faculty Referendum on Current events in 1970
13. Reviews on “Philippine Nationalism”, 1971-1972
14. Singapore – Women students, 1973
15. Sino-Soviet Dispute, 1956-1961
16. South Vietnamese Prisoners, 1973-1974
17. Soviet aid to Southeast Asia, 1962
18. Soviet aid in the United Nations
Box 15
1. Soviet Economic Trade – Research notes
2. Soviet Foreign Aid – Research notes
3. Soviet Foreign Aid – Research notes
4. Soviet threat – U.S. Propaganda
5. Soviet Trade Diplomacy – Research notes
6. Statement by Nguyen Mihn Vy at Paris Conference, 1970
7. Statement by Xuan Thuy at Paris Conference, 1972
8. Thai militarism, 1976
9. U.S. Foreign Aid – Political aspects
10. U.S. Economic Assistance – Research notes
11. U.S. Foreign Policy – Research notes
12. U.S. in Vietnam, 1963-1976
13. U.S. State Department Memo – “Possible Diem-Nhu moves and U.S. responses, 1963”
Box 16
1. Vietnam – Nixon Administration, 1972-1974
2. War profits, 1971
3. Watergate – Newspaper clippings, 1973
4. Women – India
5. World Congress for International Women’s Year – Berlin, 1975
Box 17
1. Ephemera – American Friends Service Committee Report, Pacific Northwest Region, May 1975
2. Ephemera – The American Involvement in Vietnam: An Address by George McT. Kahin, 1970
3. Ephemera – An Appeal to the People of the United States by Ho Chi Mihn, 1964
4. Ephemera – Background to Indonesia’s Policy Towards Malaysia, 1964
5. Ephemera – Bangladesh Liberation Bulletin No. 3, [1973]
6. Ephemera – Bay Area Institute Newsletter, May-June, 1970
7. Ephemera – Bulletin of Concerned Scholars: Special on Vietnam Center at Southern Illinois University, 1970
8. Ephemera – Business Executives Move for Vietnam, 1967
9. Ephemera – CONAMUP: Peruvian Woman’s National Commission, 1975
10. Ephemera – The Children of Vietnam, Ramparts Magazine Special Edition
11. Ephemera – Confrontation: A Manifestation of the Indonesian Problem
12. Ephemera – Cultural Agreement between the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Indonesia, 1959
13. Ephemera – Economic Development: Rival Systems and Comparative Advantages (New Delhi, India), 1962
14. Ephemera – Edcentric: Special issue on Vietnam, 1974
15. Ephemera – Education of Korean Citizens in Japan, 1975
16. Ephemera – Fellowship Magazine: Vietnam special, 1969
17. Ephemera – For our Sisters in Vietnam, [1975]
18. Ephemera – Hindu Marriage, 1954-1957
19. Ephemera – How to profit most from your patronage of the Industrial Development Center (Manila, Philippines)
20. Ephemera – The Indian Nuclear Test in a Global Perspective, 1974
21. Ephemera – Indochina 1971, Report by the American Friends Service Committee, 1971
22. Ephemera – The Indochina War: A speech by Walter LaFaber, 1970
23. Ephemera – Indonesian Intentions towards Malaysia, 1964
24. Ephemera – Industrial Development Center: 8th Annual Report, 1962
25. Ephemera – Industrial Development Center: Executive Development Program (Manila, Philippines)
26. Ephemera – Korea is one, [1970]
27. Ephemera – The Korean Democratic Women’s Union in Japan, [1975]
28. Ephemera – Les Jeunes Filles Sovietiques (Moscow, Russia), 1975
29. Ephemera – Looking at U.S.S.U. 73/74, 1973
30. Ephemera – Malaysia’s New Economy Policy, 1969
31. Ephemera – Malaysia’s stand on Sabah, 1968
32. Ephemera – The Malayan Claim in Perspective, 1968
33. Ephemera – The Manila Summit Conference, 1963
34. Ephemera – Nation on the move: Economic progress in figures (New Delhi, India), 1974
35. Ephemera – New Programme for Economic Progress (New Delhi, India), 1975
36. Ephemera – A New Realism: Speech by Tan Abdul Razak bin Hussein, 1969
37. Ephemera – Pelopor Newsletter No. 8, 1974
38. Ephemera – Philippine Grab Bill, 1968
39. Ephemera – The Philippine Newsletter, May 1962
40. Ephemera – A plot exposed: Sabah claim, 1965
41. Ephemera – Preserving our Democratic Structure (New Delhi, India), 1975
42. Ephemera – Protect Saigon’s Political Prisoners, British Campaign for Peace in Vietnam
43. Ephemera – Reason for Emergency, 1975
44. Ephemera – Sabah Claim: Through some Filipino Eyes, 1968
45. Ephemera – Seattle Women Act for Peace Newsletter, 1974
46. Ephemera – South Viet Nam (Havana, Cuba), 1970-1971
47. Ephemera – Star Weekly: How Canada turned its back on Vietnam’s maimed children, 1967
48. Ephemera – The Story of a mater spy… by Anthony Brown, 1964
49. Ephemera – Struggle of the C.P.S.U. for unity of the World Communist Movement, 1964
50. Ephemera – The Student Mobilizer, Student Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam, April, 1970
Box 18
1. Ephemera – Thirty days of National Discipline (New Delhi, India), 1975
2. Ephemera – The Truth about Sarawak, 1966
3. Ephemera – Twelve Questions on Vietnam, 1970
4. Ephemera – U.M.N.O.: The Kaum Ibu Movement
5. Ephemera – The U.S. and Indonesia (Newsletter), 1973
6. Ephemera – U.S. Crimes in South Vietnam, 1970
7. Ephemera – U.S.S.U. Awakening (Newsletter), 1974
8. Ephemera – Viet-Nam Bulletin Vol. 4, 1970
9. Ephemera – Vietnam Special (Single Finger Press), 1972
10. Ephemera – Vietnam Studies Coordinating Group Bulletin, 1973
11. Ephemera – Vietnam Studies Newsletter, 1977
12. Ephemera – Why Emergency: Question and Answer (New Delhi, India)
13. Ephemera – Why is U.S. Aggression in South Viet Nam Doomed to Complete Failure? (Havana, Cuba), [1969]
14. Ephemera – Women of Viet Nam (Hanoi, Vietnam), 1973
15. Ephemera – Women Strike for Peace Memo no. 2, 1970
16. Ephemera – Miscellaneous flyers
17. Various Publications – C.P.R. Statement on Neutralization of R.P., 1971
18. Various Publications – Cambodian News (published by the Royal Embassy of Cambodia), 1963
19. Various Publications – North Borneo Should be Ours, 1963
20. Various Publications – President Marcos fields questions on Martial Law from U.S. Newsmen, 1972
21. Various Publications – Statement by Tan Sri Mohd. Ghazali Bin Shafie, 1968
22. Various Publications – A Survey on the Controversial Problem of the Establishment of the Federation of Malaysia, 1964
23. Various Publications – University of Georgia, U.S. Aid to Cambodia Contract Group, 1962
Box 19
1. Dissertation – The Roles of the Indian Minorities in Burmese and Malayan Nationalism, 1957

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