David ludden biography
David ludden biography
David ludden biography death.
In 1968, David Ludden -- pictured here with his wife, Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi, and their daughter, Mohona Sara Siddiqi -- went to work as a public health intern in a village near Madras. There, he learned to see health in social and ecological perspectives.
Today, that village is an industrial slum and its nearby eighth century Pallava irrigation tank is buried under concrete.
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Today, he is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Masters and Doctorate in the 1970s [online CV ]
His first academic interest was in translating Tamil, initially twentieth century poems by Subrahmanya Bharathiyar, but then more extensively, ancient verse from the Kuruntukai.
His dissertation in History led away from poetry into the structural inequalities that underlie health conditions. His first book, Peasant History in South India (Princeton, 1985) concerned the Tirunleveli District in southern Tamil Nadu, where he joined the ranks of local historians and worked on