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	'''Gyan Prakash''' ~~(born 1952)~~ is a historian of modern [[India]] and the [[Princeton University Department of History\|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, Delhi\|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in 1975, and his [[Doctor of Philosophy\|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]].<ref>{{cite web \|title=Gyan Prakash \|url=https://penguin.co.in/book_author/gyan-prakash/ \|website=[[Penguin India]] \|~~accessdate~~=22 July 2020}}</ref>		'''Gyan Prakash''' is a historian of modern India and the [[Princeton University Department of History\|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, Delhi\|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in 1975, and his [[Doctor of Philosophy\|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]].<ref>{{cite web \|title=Gyan Prakash \|url=https://penguin.co.in/book_author/gyan-prakash/ \|website=[[Penguin India]] \|access-date=22 July 2020}}</ref>

	==Works==		==Works==

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'''Gyan Prakash''' (born 1952) is a historian of modern [[India]] and the [[Princeton University Department of History|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, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in 1975, and his [[Doctor of Philosophy|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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Gyan Prakash |url=https://penguin.co.in/book_author/gyan-prakash/ |website=[[Penguin India]] |accessdate=22 July 2020}}</ref>

==Works==
*''Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India'' (1990)
*''Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India'' (1999), {{ISBN|9780691004532}}
*''Worlds Together: Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World, 1300 to the Present'' (2002)
*''[[Mumbai Fables]]'' (2010), {{ISBN|9789350291665}}
*''Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point'' (2019), {{ISBN|0691186723|}}
* (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)

==See also==
* [[Science and technology studies in India]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=prakash Princeton University Profile]
* [http://www.berfrois.com/2010/11/myths-island-city/ "Myths of the Island City"], Gyan Prakash, ''[http://www.berfrois.com/ Berfrois]'', 17 November 2010
* [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i9334.pdf "Imaging the Modern City, Darkly"] Prakash's introduction to ''Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City''
* [http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/mumbai-revisited/ 'Mumbai Revisited'], review of ''Mumbai Fables'' in the ''[[Oxonian Review]]''

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