David Ludden
David Ludden is an American historian .
Life
Ludden studied at Yale University from 1966 to 1970 . He then moved to the University of Pennsylvania , where he received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in South Asia Regional Studies . In 1978 he received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Ph.D. in history.
From 1979 to 1980 he taught as an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia . Ludden then returned to the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1981 to 2007, from 1981 to 1987 as Assistant Professor, from 1987 to 1999 as Associate Professor and from 1999 to 2008 as Full Professor. He was also chairman of the university's South Asia Department from 1992 to 1995 . In 2007 he moved to New York University , where he has been professor of political economy and globalization at the Department of History . He is also a Senior Fellow atInstitute for Public Knowledge , and Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2005 he was visiting professor for development research at BRAC University in Dhaka .
Ludden was editor of the 1997-2000 series of books Critical Histories at the University of Pennsylvania Press. The book series comprised nine books.
Publications (selection)
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Peasant History in South India (1985, Princeton: Princeton University Press)
- Early Capitalism and Local History in South India (2005, amended version)
- An Agrarian History of South Asia. (1999, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- India and South Asia: A Short History. (2002, Oxford: OneWorld Publishers)
- (Ed.): Agricultural Production and Indian History. (1995, New Delhi: Oxford University Press)
- added new version: Agricultural Production and South Asian History. (2005, Oxford University Press)
- (Ed.): Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (1996, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
- also published as Making India Hindu: Community, Conflict, and the Politics of Democracy (1996, New Delhi: Oxford University Press)
- (Ed.): Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical Histories, Contested Meanings, and the Globalization of South Asia. (2002, New Delhi: Permanent Black Publishers, London: Anthem Press)
- (Ed.): Capitalism in Asia. (2004, Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies)
- Translations
- with M. Shanmugam Pillai: The Kuruntokai: An Anthology of Classical Tamil Love Poetry in Translation (1976, Madurai: Koodal Publishers)
Web links
- Entry on the New York University website
Individual evidence
- ^ Critical Histories , website of the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ludden, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |