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'''Gyan Prakash''' (born 1952) 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 BA in history from the [[University of Delhi]] in 1973, his MA in history from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in 1975, and his PhD in history from [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1984. His general field of research concerns urban modernity, the colonial genealogies of modernity, and problems of [[postcolonial]] thought and politics. He advises on modern South Asian history, comparative colonialism and postcolonial theory, [[urban history]], [[global history]], and [[history of science]]. |
'''Gyan Prakash''' (born 1952) 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 BA in history from the [[University of Delhi]] in 1973, his MA in history from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in 1975, and his PhD in history from [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1984. His general field of research concerns urban modernity, the colonial genealogies of modernity, and problems of [[postcolonial]] thought and politics. He advises on modern South Asian history, comparative colonialism and postcolonial theory, [[urban history]], [[global history]], and [[history of science]]. |
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* [http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/mumbai-revisited/ 'Mumbai Revisited'], review of ''Mumbai Fables'' in the ''[[Oxonian Review]]'' |
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Revision as of 01:52, 16 September 2011
Gyan Prakash (born 1952) 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 BA in history from the University of Delhi in 1973, his MA in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1975, and his PhD in history from University of Pennsylvania in 1984. His general field of research concerns urban modernity, the colonial genealogies of modernity, and problems of postcolonial thought and politics. He advises on modern South Asian history, comparative colonialism and postcolonial theory, urban history, global history, and history of science.
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)
- (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" (Forthcoming 2010)
External links
- Princeton University Profile
- "Myths of the Island City", Gyan Prakash, Berfrois, 17 November 2010
- "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
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