New York University
Department of History
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David Ludden

Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania, PhD, 1978

Email:  del5@nyu.edu
Personal Homepage:  http://homepages.nyu.edu/~del5/

Areas of Research/Interest: Economic development, agrarian conditions, health environments, empire, inequality, social conflict

Fellowships/Honors: Fulbright Research Fellowship (2009), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fund (2003), American Council of Learned Societies (2002), National Endowment for the Humanities (1990).

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Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

Monographs

ludden2.gif 2002. India and South Asia: A Short History. Oxford: OneWorld Publishers. (Indian Edition, 2004)

1999. An Agrarian History of South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The New Cambridge History of India, IV. 4. General Editor: Gordon Johnson).

1985. Peasant History in South India, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Paperback edition, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990, 1993; Second Edition with New Preface, Fall 2004)

Edited Volumes

2004. Capitalism in Asia: Readings from the Journal of Asian Studies. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies

ludden1.gif 2002. Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical Histories, Contested Meanings, and the Globalisation of South Asia. New Delhi: Permanent Black Publishers and London: Anthem Press.

ludden4.gif 1996. Making India Hindu: Community, Conflict, and the Politics of Democracy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Second Edition with New Preface and Additional Bibliography. Fall 2004. Hardback original edition. Also published as Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

ludden3.gif 1995. Agricultural Production and Indian History. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (Themes in Indian History, General Editors: Neeladri Bhattacharya, Basudev Chatterji, and C.A. Bayly) New Edition with New Preface, Winter 2005.

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