David Ludden
David Ludden is a Professor of History at New York University[1]
[2]
[3]. He is also the founding director of the NYU Global Asia Program. According to his university profile, his research include the history of globalization, World history, Afro-Eurasian history, South Asian history, agrarian history and the inequities of capitalist economic development.
According to his bio, he has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact of or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva or the Indian Government)
In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference stating that:
"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."
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- Ludden, David. India and South Asia: A Short History. OneWorld 2002.
- Ludden, David. An Agrarian History of South Asia. Cambridge, 1999
- Ludden, David. Peasant History in South India. Princeton, 1985.
Journal Articles[edit]
Ludden, David. "Spatial History in Southern Asia: Mobility, Territoriality, and Religion." De Gruyter, [2022,
- (Abstract - Flows and frictions in mobile spaces connecting South and East Asia occupy spatial histories in monsoon environments that span the arid northern steppe and the humid southern tropical seas. Many centuries of migration, trade, travel, and settlement along routes across the Hindu Kush, up and down the Indo-Ganga Basins, and around Indian Ocean coastal regions produced expanding cultural spaces, where mobile warriors and local elites formed strategic alliances and power relations that turned social space into political territory. Patronage for religious rituals, elites, and knowledge served to sanctify these power relations. Religion thus became a territorial technology, and its powers of social boundary-making became more strident during the mid-twentieth-century shift from more fluidly inclusive imperial territory to more rigidly exclusionary nation-state territorialism)
References[edit]
- ↑ David Ludden page on New York UniversityAccessed on August 3, 2022
- ↑ David Ludden page on New York UniversityAccessed on August 3, 2022
- ↑ David Ludden page on Google ScholarAccessed on August 3, 2022