Who among the following first initiated the study of State Politics in India ?

Myron Weiner initiated the systematic comparative study of state politics in India by organizing the pioneering seminar on State Politics in India in 1961 and editing the landmark volume State Politics in India (Princeton University Press, 1968). Iqbal Narain subsequently advanced the field within Indian academia through the 1965 Jaipur seminar and his edited volume State Politics in India (1967), while Paul R. Brass and Stanley Kochanek contributed specialized studies on party and factional politics.