University of Pennsylvania, PhD 1978

David Ludden
Professor of History
South Asia; Middle East; East Asia; World History; Globalization; Agrarian History; Economic Development
Fellowships and Honors
- 2018-2024 Luce Foundation Grant for NYU Center for Global Asia program “Port city environments in Global Asia,” based in NYUAD, NYUSH, and NYUNY
- 2009 Fulbright Research Fellowship
- 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fund
- 2002-2003 President of the Association of Asian Studies
- 2002 American Council of Learned Societies
- 1990 National Endowment for the Humanities
Books
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India and South Asia: A Short HistoryOxford: Oneworld Publications, 2013.Translated and published in German and Italian.
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India and South Asia: A Short HistoryOxford: OneWorld Publishers, 2002.Translated and published in German and Italian.
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An Agrarian History of South AsiaCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.The New Cambridge History of India, IV. 4. General Editor: Gordon Johnson. (digital edition online)
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Peasant History in South IndiaPrinceton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Paperback edition, Delhi: Oxford University Press: 1990, reprinted 1993, 1995, 1997.ACLS History E-Book. http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;;idno=heb02438
Articles and Chapters
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Spatial History in Southern Asia: Mobility, Territoriality, and ReligionFlows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan SpacesEdited by Gunnel Cederlöf and Willem van Schendel (forthcoming)
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Mobility and Migration around the Bay of BengalCambridge History of Global MigrationsGeneral Editor, Donna Gabaccia, Vol.1, edited by C.A.P. Antunes and Eric Tagliacozzo (forthcoming)
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Empire and AgricultureThe Cambridge History of the Indian Subcontinent, Volume 2Edited by Mrinalini Sinha, Prasannan Parthasarathi, and David Gilmartin (forthcoming)
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The Centrality of Indo-Persia in Global Asia and Historical Formation of AfghanistanAfghanistan (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)Association of Asian Studies Roundtable Volume, edited by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, 4, 1, 57-59
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The Daily Star (Dhaka, 2019)InFocus Column, April 1
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Asia Inside Out. Volume III, Itinerant People (Harvard University Press, pp.75-100)Edited by Eric Tagliacozza, Helen F. Siu, and Peter Perdue
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India’s Spatial History in the Brahmaputra-Meghna River BasinRe-Writing the Northeast (pp.21-35)Edited by Neeladri Bhattacharya and Joy L.K. Pachuau
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The Decline of Buddhism, Revisited: The Rise of Hindu Territorial Hegemony, c.950-1250Clio and Her Descendants: Essays for Kesavan Veluthat (Primus Books, pp. 132-162)Edited by Manu V. Devadevan, Delhi
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Frontiers of Agrarian Bengal: Sylhet in the 1780sAgrarian and Other Histories: Essays for Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri (New Delhi, Tulika Books, pp. 65-89)
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Modern Asian Studies. 51, 2 (March 2017, pp. 319-349. Published online: April 2017)New Directions in Social and Economic History: Essays in Honour of David Washbrook
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Economic and Political Weekly, 47, 30, 28 (July 2012, pp.213-221)
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Third World Quarterly, 33, 4, 2012, pp. 581-602. Republished in Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China: Governing DifferenceEdited by Ravinder Kaur and Ayo Wahlberg, Routledge, New York, 2014, pp. 9-30.
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Imperial Transitions in Agrarian South Asia: Sylhet and Tirunelveli, 1770-1820The Eighteenth Century in South Asia: New Terrains (Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, 2012, pp.105-129)Terrains.A Centennial Tribute to Pratul Chandra Gupta. Edited by Subash Ranjan Chakravorty
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Spatial Inequity and National Territory: Remapping 1905 in Bengal and AssamModern Asian Studies, 46, 3, May, pp. 483 – 525
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The Politics of Independence in BangladeshEconomic and Political Weekly, August 27, 46, 35, pp, 79-85
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Tributary Empires in Global History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp.132-150)edited by Peter Fibiger Bang and CA Bayly
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Spatial Inequity and National Territory: Remapping 1905 in Bengal and AssamModern Asian Studies, 2011, pp. 1-43.
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Investing in nature around Sylhet: An Excursion into Geographical HistoryContested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power (Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 77-105)Edited by Amita Baviskar
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History and the Inequality Predicament” Wertheim Lecture, University of Amsterdam, School of Social Science ResearchExcerpted in the International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, 28, Autumn, 28-9
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A Usable Past for a Post-National Present: Governance and Development in South AsiaJournal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Golden Jubilee Volume (1956-2006), 50, 1-2, pp. 259-292
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Development Regimes in South Asia: History and the Development ConundrumEconomic and Political Weekly, 40, 37 (pp. 42-51
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Where is Assam?HIMALSouthAsia, November 2005
Edited Volumes
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Capitalism in AsiaAnn Arbor: Association for Asian Studies
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Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical Histories, Contested Meanings, and the Globalisation of South AsiaNew Delhi: Permanent Black Publishers and London: Anthem Press
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Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in IndiaPhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Paperback editionNew Preface. Additional Bibliography. Oxford University Press, Delhi
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Agricultural Production and Indian HistoryNew Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2005Second paperback edition published as Agricultural Production and South Asian History. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2005
Translations
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The Kuruntokai: An Anthology of Classical Tamil Love Poetry in TranslationKoodal Publishers, Madurai, 1976With M.Shanmugam Pillai
Contact Information
David Ludden
Professor of History david.ludden@nyu.edu King Juan Carlos Center, Room 526Phone: (212) 998-8645