He has held fellowships or grants from St. Antony's College, Oxford, the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, and the Institute of Current World Affairs.

[2] While serving as director of the State Department's Near East and South Asia office, he reviewed intelligence reports pertaining to the 1967 USS Liberty incident.

That it was an accident, of course, was nonsense.”[8] In 2011, in recognition for his writing on the framing and working of the Indian Constitution, Granville Austin was awarded a Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian honor of the Republic of India.

[9][10] National Translation Mission of the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India has selected The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation for translation into Indian languages.

The book has already been published in Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia, Hindi and Malayalam languages.