Arild Engelsen Ruud
Professor
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South Asia studies
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Email
a.e.ruud@ikos.uio.no
Phone
+47 22856712
Mobile phone
99533823
Room
381 PAM
Available hours
By appointment
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Visiting address
Niels Henrik Abels vei 36
Postal address
Postboks 1010 Blindern
0315 OSLO
I am a Professor of South Asia Studies and the Head of Research at the institute.
Academic Interests
- Political culture in South Asia (in particular India and Bangladesh)
- Political leadership
- Popular perceptions of democracy
- Political practices
Teaching
- Modern South Asian history
- Modern India
- Bengali literary history
- Bangladesh: history, politics, society
- Political culture in South Asia
- Foundational issues for the study of Asian and African societies
- Teaching in Asian and African Studies Programme
Ongoing research
The project "Democratic Cultures in South Asia" (pdf) will explore processes of vernacularisation of Democracy.
Higher education
- PhD London School of Economics
Assignments
- Head of Research, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages 2015--
- Head of Board, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo 2013--
- Head of Studies, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages 2007--2012
- Asia Network: Head of Steering Group 2009--2012
- Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM): Board Member and Deputy Chair 2009--2013
- Norwegian Center for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU): Board Member and Deputy Chair 2010--2011
- Nordic Centre in India (NCI): General Assembly Representative and Substitute Board Member 2009--
- Nordic South Asia Forum (NoFSA): founding Board Member
Publications
- Demokrati på indisk. Arild Engelsen Ruud og Geir Heierstad, red. Unipub Oslo 2010.
- Power and Influence in India: Bosses, Lords and Captains. Eds. Pamela Price and Arild Engelsen Ruud. Routledge, New Delhi 2010.
- Langtvekkistan: Grunnlagsproblemer for studiet av asiatiske og afrikanske samfunn. (Foundational Issues for the Study of Asian and African Societies; in Norwegian) Unipub, Oslo 2009.
- Fatik og sjongløren fra Calcutta. In Norwegian. Translation from Bengali of Satyajit Ray's children's book Phatik Chand). Solum Forlag, Oslo 2007.
- Indias historie, med Pakistan og Bangladesh. (in Norwegian; India's History, with Pakistan and Bangladesh) Cappelen akademisk forlag, Oslo 2004. Co-authors Eldrid Mageli and Pamela Price.
- Poetics of Village Politics: the Making of West Bengal's Rural Communism. Oxford University Press, Delhi 2003.
- Norsk utviklingshjelps historie, bind 2. (in Norwegian; The History of Norwegian Development Aid, volume 2) Fagbokforlaget, Bergen 2003. Co-author Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland.
- Nærbilder av India. (in Norwegian; Close-ups of India) Cappelen akademisk forlag, Oslo 2000. Edited, with Kathinka Frøystad and Eldrid Mageli
- Rollier, Paul; Frøystad, Kathinka & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2019). Introduction: Researching the rise of religious offence in South Asia, In Paul Rollier; Kathinka Frøystad & Arild Engelsen Ruud (ed.), Outrage: The Rise of Religious Offence in Contemporary South Asia. UCL Press. ISBN 9781787355286. 1. s 1 - 47
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2019). Religious outrage as spectacle: the successful protests against a blasphemous minister, In Paul Rollier; Kathinka Frøystad & Arild Engelsen Ruud (ed.), Outrage: The Rise of Religious Offence in Contemporary South Asia. UCL Press. ISBN 9781787355286. Chapter 4. s 103 - 122
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2019). Sovereign Sensibilities Gunday and the nation as the self, In Arild Engelsen Ruud; Pamela Gwynne Price & David Gilmartin (ed.), South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power. Routledge. ISBN 9780367312701. Kapittel 8.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2019). The Politics of Contracting in Provincial Bangladesh, In Barbara Harriss-White & Lucia Michelutti (ed.), The Wild East: Criminal Political Economies in South Asia. UCL Press. ISBN 9781787353237. Chapter 10. s 262 - 287
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2018). The Godfather, In Arild Engelsen Ruud; David Picherit; Lucia Michelutti; Ashraf Hoque; Paul Rollier; Clarinda Still & Nicholas Martin (ed.), Mafia Raj: The Rule of Bosses in South Asia. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503606388. Kapittel.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2018). The Osman Dynasty: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Family. Studies in Indian Politics. ISSN 2321-0230. 6(2), s 209- 224 . doi: 10.1177/2321023018797453
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2018). Political Dynasticism: Networks, Trust, Risk. Studies in Indian Politics. ISSN 2321-0230. 6(2), s 157- 167 . doi: 10.1177/2321023018797407
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Picherit, David; Michelutti, Lucia; Hoque, Ashraf; Rollier, Paul; Still, Clarinda & Martin, Nicholas (2018). Backdrops, In Arild Engelsen Ruud; David Picherit; Lucia Michelutti; Ashraf Hoque; Paul Rollier; Clarinda Still & Nicholas Martin (ed.), Mafia Raj: The Rule of Bosses in South Asia. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503606388. Kapittel.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Picherit, David; Michelutti, Lucia; Hoque, Ashraf; Rollier, Paul; Still, Clarinda & Martin, Nicholas (2018). Conclusion: The Art of Bossing, In Arild Engelsen Ruud; David Picherit; Lucia Michelutti; Ashraf Hoque; Paul Rollier; Clarinda Still & Nicholas Martin (ed.), Mafia Raj: The Rule of Bosses in South Asia. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503606388. Kapittel.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Picherit, David; Michelutti, Lucia; Hoque, Ashraf; Rollier, Paul; Still, Clarinda & Martin, Nicholas (2018). Introduction, In Arild Engelsen Ruud; David Picherit; Lucia Michelutti; Ashraf Hoque; Paul Rollier; Clarinda Still & Nicholas Martin (ed.), Mafia Raj: The Rule of Bosses in South Asia. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503606388. Introduction.
- Heierstad, Geir & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016). On the Diversity of India’s Democracies, In Arild Engelsen Ruud & Geir Heierstad (ed.), India's democracies : diversity, co-optation, resistance. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 978-82-15-02689-3. Introduction. s 13 - 29 Full text in Research Archive.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016). From Client to Supporter: Economic Change and the Slow Change of Social Identity in Rural West Bengal, In Kenneth Bo Nielsen; Geir Heierstad & Uday Chandra (ed.), The Politics of Caste in West Bengal. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-892148-1. Chapter 9.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Islam, Mohammad Mozahidul (2016). Political Dynasty Formation in Bangladesh. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. ISSN 0085-6401. 39(2), s 401- 414 . doi: 10.1080/00856401.2016.1164107
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2015). Perry Anderson: The Indian Ideology. Agora : Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. (2-3), s 229- 240
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2013). Carl Bock: Adventurer and collector in nineteenth century Siam, In Anne Håbu & Dawn F Rooney (ed.), Royal Porcelain from Siam. Unpacking the Ring Collection. Hermes Academic Publishing and Bookshop A/S. ISBN 978-82-8034-200-3. Artikkel. s 143 - 159
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). Democracy in Bangladesh: A Village View, In Stig Toft Madsen; Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Uwe Skoda (ed.), Trysts with democracy: political practice in South Asia. Anthem Press. ISBN 978-0-85728-773-1. 2. s 45 - 70
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). Samfunn i rask endring, I: Indias historie, med Pakistan og Bangladesh. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-02-34304-0. Kapittel 11. s 427 - 454
- Price, Pamela Gwynne & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). "Introduction", In Arild Engelsen Ruud & Pamela Gwynne Price (ed.), Power and Influence in India: Bosses, Lords and Captains. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-58595-8. introduction. s xix - xxxiv
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). Forankringen av demokratiet i India, I: Arild Engelsen Ruud & Geir Heierstad (red.), Demokrati på indisk. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274774766. Kapittel. s 13 - 34
- Rollier, Paul; Frøystad, Kathinka & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (ed.) (2019). Outrage: The Rise of Religious Offence in Contemporary South Asia. UCL Press. ISBN 9781787355286. 264 s. Show summary
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Price, Pamela Gwynne & Gilmartin, David (ed.) (2019). South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power. Routledge. ISBN 9780367312701. 244 s.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Picherit, David; Michelutti, Lucia; Hoque, Ashraf; Rollier, Paul; Still, Clarinda & Martin, Nicholas (ed.) (2018). Mafia Raj: The Rule of Bosses in South Asia. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503606388. 352 s.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Heierstad, Geir (ed.) (2016). India's democracies : diversity, co-optation, resistance. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 978-82-15-02689-3. 239 s. Full text in Research Archive.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Geir, Heierstad (2014). Indiske utfordringer. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-02-43190-7. 259 s.
- Heierstad, Geir; Flåten, Lars Tore & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). Indiske utfordringer. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202431907. 250 s.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). Notions of Rights and State Benefits in Village West Bengal. Social Science Press. ISBN 978-93-83166-04-6. 22 s.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Mageli, Eldrid Ingebjørg & Price, Pamela Gwynne (2011). Indias historie, med Pakistan og Bangladesh. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-02-34304-0. 483 s.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Jensenius, Francesca R.; Frøystad, Hanne Kathinka & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2019). Valgvake - valget i India.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Indias geopolitiske spagat. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Modis æra. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Jensenius, Francesca R. & Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus (2019). Modi er kommet for å bli. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus & Jensenius, Francesca R. (2019). Er valget i India slutten på dynastiet?. Avisa Vårt land.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus & Jensenius, Francesca R. (2019). Indisk spenning. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jensenius, Francesca R. (2019). Hindunasjonalistisk parti går mot valgseier. Avisa Vårt land.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2019, 23. august). Kastesystemet i India lever fortsatt. [Radio]. NRK P2 Studio 2.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2019, 31. oktober). Torsdag oppfylles en gammel drøm for makthaverne. For mange av dem som bor i området, fremstår det som et mareritt..
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Hasan, Mubashar (2019). The Geopolitics of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Bangladesh. e-International relations. ISSN 2053-8626.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Hasan, Mubashar (2019). What went wrong with the BNP, Bangladesh's main opposition party?. Al Jazeera.
- Frydenlund, Iselin & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). Hvorfor forfølges rohingyaene?. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892. s 6- 6
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). An unexpected outcome. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). Bondevik og Kashmir. Fokus India Blog.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017, 14. august). India 70. [Radio]. NRK Norgesglasset.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). India og miljøet. Fokus India Blog.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). Konfrontasjon i Himalaya. Fokus India Blog.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). Mafiadronningene i Mumbai. Fokus India Blog.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). Når presidenter skiftes ut. Fokus India Blog.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). På tide å akseptere delelinjen i Kashmir. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017). What is going on in Tamil Nadu?. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2017, 16. januar). Æresdrap: Mor dømt til døden i Pakistan for å ha brent datteren levende Tidligere kunne familien frikjent seg selv.. dagbladet.no.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Heierstad, Geir; Flåten, Lars Tore & Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus (2017). Demokratisk jubileum med bismak. Avisa Vårt land.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2017). De usikre alliansenes tid. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016). Fredsprisvinner i stygg relieff. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016). India forbød de største sedlene. Nå står folk i timelange køer og har ikke penger til dagligvarer. Dagbladet.no.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016). India som Storbritannias redning?. indiafokus.no.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016). India, ved Joar Hoel Larsen. indiafokus.no.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016, 24. november). Intervju om indisk pengepolitikk. [Radio]. NRK radio Norgesglasset.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016, 23. august). Protestene i det norskpakistanske miljøet fortsetter. utrop.no.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016). Retorisk eskalering. indiafokus.no.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). India sett fra Rødt. indiafokus.no.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2015). A Foreigner in Kuakata. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2015). Five scenarios for Bangladesh. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2015). Modi in the Middle. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). Hoping for a strong Modi. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). Strength and Vulnerability. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). The People that aren't. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). The Political Bully in Bangladesh, In Anastasia Piliavsky (ed.), Patronage as Politics in South Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-05608-4. Kapittel 13. s 303 - 325
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). What next, Bangladesh?. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). What were the upazila elections all about?. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2013, 15. juli). Dom på overtid. [Internett]. NRK.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2013, 25. april). Er det trangt i Bangladesh?. [Radio]. NRK Norgesglasset.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2013, 07. august). Knallhard dragkamp om fredsprisvinnerens bank. [Internett]. E24.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2013, 17. juli). Matforgiftning i India. [Radio]. NRK Her og nå.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2013). Narratives of 1971.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2013). Politisk kultur og vold i Bangladesh.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2013). The Final Stretch. Dhaka Tribune.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie (2013). Ideologisk strid og politisk undergang? Bangladesh mot valg.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2012). Crime and politics in Bangladesh.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2012). India seen from Bangladesh.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2012). Kina sett fra India. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2012). Literature and Culture in the History of Peasant Bengal.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2012, 16. mai). Meinar «Verdas vakraste kvinne» er for tjukk etter fødselen. [Internett]. http://www.nrk.no/kultur-og-underholdning/1.8140411.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2012). Om Kashmir.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). Indere mot korrupsjon. Ny tid. ISSN 0803-3498. 59(31), s 32- 33
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). A New India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century. Internasjonal Politikk - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for internasjonale studier. ISSN 0020-577X. 69(3), s 551- 554
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. Internasjonal Politikk - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for internasjonale studier. ISSN 0020-577X. 69(1), s 140- 143
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). Book essay: Water and the State in India. Review of Aandahl, Guro. 2010. ‘Technocratic dreams and troublesome beneficiaries. The Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project in Gujarat.’ PhD dissertation, University of Oslo 2010. 388 pages. And Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. 2010. Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage. Routledge 2010. 231 pages. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. (1)
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). ‘Democracy means Development’: A Village View from Bangladesh.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). Hanne-Ruth Thompson: Bengali: A Comprehensive Grammar. South Asia Research. ISSN 0262-7280. 31(2), s 188- 189
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). Kipling og Jungelboken.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011). NREGA and citizenship.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2011, 08. januar). Yunus under hardt press. Dagsavisen.
- Heierstad, Geir & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). Innledning, I: Arild Engelsen Ruud & Geir Heierstad (red.), Demokrati på indisk. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274774766. Innledning.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). Balkanisering i India?. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). En indisk kjempe. Ny tid. ISSN 0803-3498. 57(4), s 48- 49
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). Sluttet på en era. Sydasien. ISSN 0282-0463. 34(1), s 26- 27
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). Democracy in South Asia: The Village Perception.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). Det indiske demokratiets forankring.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). Hvordan kom demokratiet til å slå rot i India?.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010, 13. august). Intervju om Omar Abdullah, førsteminister i Jammu og Kashmir. [Radio]. NRK P2 Radioselskapet.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). NREGA and its political significance: state and local level.
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