Gyan Prakash is a historian of modern India and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. Prakash is a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. Prakash received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Delhi in 1973, his Master's degree in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1975, and his doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. His field of research concerns urban modernity, genealogies of modernity, and problems of postcolonial thought and politics. He writes about modern South Asian history, comparative colonialism and postcolonial theory, urban history,

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, and the

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. He has also written several books, including

Mumbai Fables ''Mumbai Fables'' is a 2010 non-fiction book about the history of Mumbai, authored by Gyan Prakash. ''Bombay Velvet'' (2015), directed by Anurag Kashyap Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian filmmaker and actor known for his ...

(2010), which was adapted into the 2015 film

Bombay Velvet ''Bombay Velvet'' is a 2015 Indian period crime thriller film directed and co-produced by Anurag Kashyap, based on historian Gyan Prakash's book '' Mumbai Fables''. It stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Karan Johar in lead roles, with Kay K ...

directed by

Anurag Kashyap Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian filmmaker and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to film, the Government of France a ...

Works

*''Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India'' (1990) *''Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India'' (1999), *''Worlds Together: Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World, 1300 to the Present'' (2002) *''

'' (2010), *''Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point'' (2019), * (ed.) ''After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements'' (1995) * (ed.) ''The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life'' (2008) * (ed.) ''Noir Urbanism: Dystopic Images of the Modern City'' (2010)

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'' Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni Delhi University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Historians of India Princeton University faculty 1952 births Living people {{India-historian-stub

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