Gyan Prakash
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,
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.
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