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'''Gyan Prakash''' | '''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== | ||