Gyan Prakash is a historian of modern India and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

. Prakash is a member of the

Subaltern Studies The Subaltern Studies Group (SSG) or Subaltern Studies Collective is a group of South Asian scholars interested in the postcolonial and post-imperial societies. The term ''Subaltern Studies'' is sometimes also applied more broadly to others who sh ...

collective. Prakash received his

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...

degree in history from the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...

in 1973, his

Master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in history from

Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...

in 1975, and his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

in history from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 1984. His field of research concerns urban modernity, genealogies of modernity, and problems of

postcolonial Postcolonialism is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. More specifically, it is a ...

thought and politics. He writes about modern South Asian history, comparative colonialism and postcolonial theory,

urban history Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, urb ...

, global history, and the history of science. He has also written several books, including Mumbai Fables (2010), which was adapted into the 2015 film Bombay Velvet directed by Anurag Kashyap.

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) *'' Mumbai Fables'' (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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Princeton University Profile

"Myths of the Island City"
Gyan Prakash,
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"Imaging the Modern City, Darkly"
Prakash's introduction to ''Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City''
'Mumbai Revisited'
review of ''Mumbai Fables'' in the '' Oxonian Review'' 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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