Deepak Kumar is an India

India

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n Historian. His specialization is history of science in India. Currently, he is a Professor of History of Science

History of science

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 and Education, at Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University

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, New Delhi

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, India. He has sought to demonstrate in several of his books that British

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 colonialism

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 in India played a major role in how Europe

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an scientific fields developed. "Science and the Raj: A study of British India" is one of the pioneer contribution in the field of history of science in India.

Books

• 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 & MacLeod Roy (eds.), Technology and the Raj, SAGE, New Delhi, 1995 (Enlarged Hindi version was published by Granthshilpi, Delhi in 2002)
• Kumar, Deepak, Damodaran Vinita, D'Souza Rohan (eds.), The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia, OUP, Delhi, 2010.
• Kumar, Deepak & Chaube, Devendra (eds.), Hashiye ka Vritanta(Narrative of the Margins), in Hindi, Aadhar Publications, Panchkula, 2011.

Source

• Sardar, Ziauddin
  Ziauddin Sardar
  Ziauddin Sardar is a London-based scholar, writer and cultural-critic who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies and science and cultural relations...
  
   and Loon, Borin Van
  Borin Van Loon
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  2001. Introducing Science. US: Totem Books (UK: Icon Books).

External links

• India - Historical Setting: Bibliography

Reference

• Prof. Deepak Kumar's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Faculty Page