Publications
from FRIDA database
PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science
Director
Nordic Centre in India
Associate Professor
Institute of East European and Oriental Studies, University of Oslo
Research
interest:
• South Asian political culture
• Modern Indian history and politics
• Bengali language history and literature
Publications:
• The poetics of village politics. Oxford University Press, Delhi
2003.
• Norsk utviklingshjelps historie, vol. 2 – 1975-1989, Vekst,
velvilje og utfordringer. With K. A. Kjerland. Fagbokforlaget 2003.
• Indias historie – med Pakistan og Bangladesh. Norwegian
textbook in South Asian history for university level. With E. Mageli
and P. Price. Cappelen akademisk forlag (forthcoming 2004).
Articles:
• Corruption as everyday practice: The public-private divide in
local Indian society. In Forum for development studies 2, 2000, pp.
271-294.
• Talking dirty about politics. A view from a Bengali village.
The everyday state and society in modern India. In V. Bénéi
and C. Fuller eds. New Delhi: Social Science Press 2000.
• Nærbilder av India: Samfunn, politikk og utvikling. With
K. Frøystad and E. Mageli. Oslo: Cappelen akademisk forlag 2000.
• Om «lederen» i indisk politikk. In Nærbilder
av India: Samfunn, politikk og utvikling. Frøystad, Mageli and
Ruud eds., pp. 153-174.
• Embedded Bengal? The case for politics. In Forum for development
studies 2, 1999, pp. 235-260.
• The Indian hierarchy: Culture, ideology and consciousness in
Bengali village politics. In Modern Asian Studies 33, 3 1999, pp. 689-732.
• From untouchable to communist: Wealth, power and status among
CPM-supporters in rural West Bengal. In B. Rogaly, B. Harriss-White
and S. Bose eds. Sonar bangla? Agricultural growth and agrarian change
in West Bengal and Bangladesh. New Delhi: Sage, 1999.
• Of novels and dramas: Engaging with literature in Bengal and
the making of a modern village leader. In South Asia Research (Special
issue: Bengali studies) 17, 1 1997, pp. 71-92.
