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'''Deepak Kumar''' is a professor of [[History of science|History of Science]] and Education, at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]], India. Kumar has lectured at numerous universities within India and abroad, has held visiting fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, London, Leiden, The Smithsonian Institution, etc. and has also taught at Wisconsin University, Madison, USA, and [[York University]] in Toronto, Canada.
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Kumar argues that [[British colonialism]] in India played a major role in how [[Europe]]an scientific fields developed. One of his major works is ''Science and the Raj: A study of British India'' is in the field of history of [[science in India]].  
'''Deepak Kumar''' is a professor of [[History of science|History of Science]] and Education, at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]], India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deepak Kumar {{!}} Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University |url=https://jnu.ac.in/content/deepakkumar |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=jnu.ac.in}}</ref> Kumar has lectured at numerous universities within India and abroad, held visiting fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, London, Leiden, The Smithsonian Institution, etc. and has also taught at Wisconsin University, Madison, USA, and [[York University]] in Toronto, Canada.<ref name=":0" />


A recent work is ''The Trishanku Nation'' reviewed in Sage Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2230807516686431
Kumar argues that [[British Raj|British colonial rule in India]] played a major role in how [[Europe]]an scientific fields developed. One of his major works is ''Science and the Raj: A study of British India'' is in the field of history of [[science in India]].
 
A 2017 work is ''The Trishanku Nation'' reviewed in Sage Publications <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Menon |first=Shailaja |date=July 2017 |title=Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2230807516686431 |journal=History and Sociology of South Asia |language=en |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=223–226 |doi=10.1177/2230807516686431 |s2cid=157932478 |issn=2230-8075|url-access=subscription }}</ref>


In describing medical encounters in colonial India, Kumar argues that Western medical discourse occupied an important place in the process of colonization and it worked towards a scientific hegemony. "Indigenous systems were so marginalised that their practitioners often sought survival in resistance rather than collaboration."  
In describing medical encounters in colonial India, Kumar argues that Western medical discourse occupied an important place in the process of colonization and it worked towards a scientific hegemony. "Indigenous systems were so marginalised that their practitioners often sought survival in resistance rather than collaboration."  
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0376983615597337?journalCode=ihra
<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0376983615597337?journalCode=ihra | doi=10.1177/0376983615597337 | title=Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Joseph Bara, Nandita Khadria and Ch. Radha Gayathri (Eds), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights | year=2015 | last1=Gupta | first1=Vikas | journal=Indian Historical Review | volume=42 | issue=2 | pages=365–368 | s2cid=147698258 | url-access=subscription }}</ref>
 
A number of his publications are cataloged at WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Deepak+Kumar&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22kumar%2C+deepak%22&qt=facet_ap%3A
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Deepak+Kumar&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22kumar%2C+deepak%22&qt=facet_ap%3A These include, as of August 2021, publications in English (983), German (6), Arabic (2), and Hindi (2).


A number of his publications are cataloged at WorldCat:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Deepak+Kumar&dblist=638&fq=ap:%22kumar,+deepak%22&qt=facet_ap:|title=Deepak Kumar - Search Results|website=www.worldcat.org}}</ref> These include, as of August 2021, publications in English (983), German (6), Arabic (2), and Hindi (2).


==Books==
==Books==
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* Kumar, Deepak (ed.), ''Disease and Medicine in India: A Historical Overview'', Tulika, 2001 {{ISBN|81-85229-51-1}}
* Kumar, Deepak (ed.), ''Disease and Medicine in India: A Historical Overview'', Tulika, 2001 {{ISBN|81-85229-51-1}}
* Kumar, Deepak, ''Science and the Raj: A Study of British India'', Oxford University Press, 2006 (2nd edition) {{ISBN|0-19-568003-0}}
* Kumar, Deepak, ''Science and the Raj: A Study of British India'', Oxford University Press, 2006 (2nd edition) {{ISBN|0-19-568003-0}}
* Kumar, Deepak & Roy MacLeod (eds.), ''Technology and the Raj'', SAGE, New Delhi, 1995 (Enlarged Hindi version was published by Granthshilpi, Delhi in 2002)
* Kumar, Deepak & Roy MacLeod (eds.), ''Technology and the Raj'', SAGE, New Delhi, 1995 (Enlarged Hindi version was published by Granthshilpi, Delhi in 2002, 2nd edition with a new Preface, published by Aakar Books, Delhi, 2022)
* Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D'Souza (eds.), ''The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia'', OUP, Delhi, 2010.
* Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D'Souza (eds.), ''The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia'', OUP, Delhi, 2010.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4405022
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4405022 Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920]


* Kumar, Deepak & Chaube, Devendra (eds.), ''Hashiye ka Vritanta'' (Narrative of the Margins), in Hindi, Aadhar Publications, Panchkula, 2011.
* Kumar, Deepak & Chaube, Devendra (eds.), ''Hashiye ka Vritanta'' (Narrative of the Margins), in Hindi, Aadhar Publications, Panchkula, 2011.
* Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) ''Medical Encounter in British India'', OUP, Delhi, 2013. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4405022]
* Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) ''Medical Encounter in British India'', OUP, Delhi, 2013. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4405022 Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920]
* Kumar, Deepak, J.Bara, N.Khadria and R. Gayathri (eds.), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights, Manohar Books, Delhi, 2013.
* Kumar, Deepak, J.Bara, N.Khadria and R. Gayathri (eds.), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights, Manohar Books, Delhi, 2013.
* Kumar, Deepak, ''The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India'', OUP, Delhi, 2016.
* Kumar, Deepak, ''The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India'', OUP, Delhi, 2016.
* Kumar, Deepak and Raha, Bipasha (eds.), ''Tilling the Land: Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in Colonial India'', Primus, Delhi, 2016.
* Kumar, Deepak and Raha, Bipasha (eds.), ''Tilling the Land: Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in Colonial India'', Primus, Delhi, 2016.
2016.
*Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) ''Medical Encounter in British India'', OUP, Delhi, 2013.
*Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) ''Medical Encounter in British India'', OUP, Delhi, 2013.
*Kumar, Deepak, Trishanku Rashtra, (in Hindi), Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi, 2018.
*Kumar, Deepak, Aatam Khabar: Sanskriti, Samaj aur Hum, (in Hindi), Aakar Books, Delhi, 2022.
*Kumar, Deepak, '''Culture' of Science and the Making of India'', Primus, Delhi, 2022.
Kumar, Deepak, ''Science and Society in Modern India'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023.
Kumar, Deepak, ''Ghoom Charkhya Ghoom: Ek Safarnama'', (in Hindi), Aakar Books, Delhi, 2025.
==References==
{{Reflist}}


==Sources==
==Sources==
*[[Ziauddin Sardar|Sardar, Ziauddin]] and [[Borin Van Loon|Loon, Borin Van]] 2001. ''Introducing Science''. US: Totem Books (UK: Icon Books).
*[[Ziauddin Sardar|Sardar, Ziauddin]] and [[Borin Van Loon|Loon, Borin Van]] 2001. ''Introducing Science''. US: Totem Books (UK: Icon Books).


==Positions==
== External links ==
 
Lecturer, Department of History, Kurukshetra University, 1976-1983.
Scientist, History and Philosophy of Science Division, NISTADS, 1983-1997.
Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 1998-1999
Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 2000 to date.
 
'''Awards & Honours'''
President and Convenor, 20th International Association of Historians of Asia Conference, held at JNU, New Delhi, on 14-17 Nov. 2008.
President, International Commission on Science & Empire, IUHPS/DHS, 1997-2001.
President of the Modern India Section, Indian History Congress, 60th Session, Calicut, December 1999.
Professor R.C.Gupta Endowment History of Science Lecture Award given by the National Academy of Science, Allahabad, July 2001.
President, South Asia Section, Indian Association of Asian and Pacific Studies, Second Biennial Conference, Sambalpur University, 29-31 Jan. 2004.
Vice-President, International Association of Historians of Asia, 2004-06, elected at the 18th IAHA Conf. held at Taipei in 2004.
Member, Academie Internationale D’Histoire des Sciences, Paris.
Vice-President, Association of South Asian Environmental Historians, 2007- 2009, reelected 2010.
 
'''Selected Peer Reviewed Publications'''
 
''The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self and Society in Contemporary India'', OUP, Delhi, 2016.
 
''Science and the Raj'', Enlarged Second Edition by OUP, Delhi, in Jan.06. Paperback in Sept.06, reprint 2011. (Earlier Hindi version published by Granthsilpi, Delhi, in 1998. Urdu version published by NCPUL, New Delhi in 2009). Bengali translation titled British Bharter Vijnan, Sujan Pub., Kolkata, 2007.
 
''Technology and the Raj'', jointly edited with Professor Roy MacLeod of Sydney University, SAGE, New Delhi, 1995. Enlarged Hindi version was published by Granthshilpi, Delhi in 2002.
 
Edited with Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D’Souza, eds. ''The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia'', OUP, Delhi, 2010.
 
"Reason, Science and Religion: Gleanings from the Colonial Past", Studies in People’s History, vol.1, issue 2, Dec. 2014, pp. 181-198.
 
"Science Administration: A Historical Outline", ''Social Scientist'', vol. 43, nos. 1-2, Jan. 2015, pp. 31-42.
 
"HISTEM and the Making of Modern India – Some Questions and Explanations", ''Indian Journal of History of Science'', vol.50, 4, 2015, pp. 616-628.
 
 
'''Teaching Experience
Lecturer, Department of History, Kurukshetra University, 1976-1983.
Scientist, History and Philosophy of Science Division, NISTADS, 1983-1997.
Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 1998-1999
Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 2000 to date.
 
'''Administrative Experience'''
Head, History and Philosophy of Science Division, NISTADS, (CSIR), 1986-1996.
Chairman, Z.H.Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 2002-2004, again 2010 - 2011.
Chairman, Campus Development Committee, JNU, 2005-2007.
Senior Warden, Sabarmati Hostel, JNU, 1999-2005.
Director, Educational Records Research Unit, JNU, 2004 - 2010
Founder Chairman, Media Research Centre, SSS, JNU, June 2010 onward
 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927140505/http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/deepakkumar/ Prof. Deepak Kumar's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Faculty Page]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927140505/http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/deepakkumar/ Prof. Deepak Kumar's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Faculty Page]


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Latest revision as of 19:07, 29 October 2025

Deepak Kumar
Deepak Kumar
Born1952[1]
India
OccupationHistorian[1]
Years active1976–present[1]
EraBritish Raj
Known forScience and the Raj (1995)[2]

Deepak Kumar is a professor of History of Science and Education, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.[3] Kumar has lectured at numerous universities within India and abroad, held visiting fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, London, Leiden, The Smithsonian Institution, etc. and has also taught at Wisconsin University, Madison, USA, and York University in Toronto, Canada.[1]

Kumar argues that British colonial rule in India played a major role in how European scientific fields developed. One of his major works is Science and the Raj: A study of British India is in the field of history of science in India.

A 2017 work is The Trishanku Nation reviewed in Sage Publications [4]

In describing medical encounters in colonial India, Kumar argues that Western medical discourse occupied an important place in the process of colonization and it worked towards a scientific hegemony. "Indigenous systems were so marginalised that their practitioners often sought survival in resistance rather than collaboration." [5]

A number of his publications are cataloged at WorldCat:[6] These include, as of August 2021, publications in English (983), German (6), Arabic (2), and Hindi (2).

Books[edit | edit source]

  • Kumar, Deepak (ed.), Science and Empire: Essays in Indian Context, 1700-1947. Delhi: Anamika Prakashan, 1991
  • Kumar, Deepak (ed.), Disease and Medicine in India: A Historical Overview, Tulika, 2001 ISBN 81-85229-51-1
  • Kumar, Deepak, Science and the Raj: A Study of British India, Oxford University Press, 2006 (2nd edition) ISBN 0-19-568003-0
  • Kumar, Deepak & Roy MacLeod (eds.), Technology and the Raj, SAGE, New Delhi, 1995 (Enlarged Hindi version was published by Granthshilpi, Delhi in 2002, 2nd edition with a new Preface, published by Aakar Books, Delhi, 2022)
  • Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D'Souza (eds.), The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia, OUP, Delhi, 2010.

Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920

  • Kumar, Deepak & Chaube, Devendra (eds.), Hashiye ka Vritanta (Narrative of the Margins), in Hindi, Aadhar Publications, Panchkula, 2011.
  • Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) Medical Encounter in British India, OUP, Delhi, 2013. Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920
  • Kumar, Deepak, J.Bara, N.Khadria and R. Gayathri (eds.), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights, Manohar Books, Delhi, 2013.
  • Kumar, Deepak, The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India, OUP, Delhi, 2016.
  • Kumar, Deepak and Raha, Bipasha (eds.), Tilling the Land: Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in Colonial India, Primus, Delhi, 2016.
  • Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) Medical Encounter in British India, OUP, Delhi, 2013.
  • Kumar, Deepak, Trishanku Rashtra, (in Hindi), Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi, 2018.
  • Kumar, Deepak, Aatam Khabar: Sanskriti, Samaj aur Hum, (in Hindi), Aakar Books, Delhi, 2022.
  • Kumar, Deepak, 'Culture' of Science and the Making of India, Primus, Delhi, 2022.

Kumar, Deepak, Science and Society in Modern India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023.

Kumar, Deepak, Ghoom Charkhya Ghoom: Ek Safarnama, (in Hindi), Aakar Books, Delhi, 2025.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "index". archives.ashoka.edu.in. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  2. ↑ "Deepak Kumar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Deepak Kumar | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University". jnu.ac.in. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Menon, Shailaja (July 2017). "Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India". History and Sociology of South Asia. 11 (2): 223–226. doi:10.1177/2230807516686431. ISSN 2230-8075. S2CID 157932478.
  5. ↑ Gupta, Vikas (2015). "Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Joseph Bara, Nandita Khadria and Ch. Radha Gayathri (Eds), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights". Indian Historical Review. 42 (2): 365–368. doi:10.1177/0376983615597337. S2CID 147698258.
  6. ↑ "Deepak Kumar - Search Results". www.worldcat.org.

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