Gyan Prakash is a historian of modern India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University

Princeton University

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. Prakash is a member of the Subaltern Studies

Subaltern Studies

The Subaltern Studies Group or Subaltern Studies Collective are a group of South Asian scholars interested in the postcolonial and post-imperial societies of South Asia in particular and the developing world in general. The term Subaltern Studies is sometimes also applied more broadly to others...

 collective. Prakash received his BA in history from the University of Delhi

University of Delhi

The University of Delhi is a central university situated in Delhi, India and is funded by Government of India. Established in 1922, it offers courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari is the Chancellor of the university...

 in 1973, his MA in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University, also known as JNU, is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. It is mainly a research oriented postgraduate University with approximately 5,500 students and a faculty strength of around 550.-History:...

 in 1975, and his PhD in history from University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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 in 1984. His general field of research concerns urban modernity, the colonial genealogies of modernity, and problems of postcolonial thought and politics. He advises on modern South Asian history, comparative colonialism and postcolonial theory, urban history

Urban History

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, global history, and history of science

History of science

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Works

• Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (1990)
• Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999)
• Worlds Together: Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World, 1300 to the Present (2002)
• Mumbai Fables (2010)
• (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)

External links

• Princeton University Profile
• "Myths of the Island City", Gyan Prakash, Berfrois, 17 November 2010
• "Imaging the Modern City, Darkly" Prakash's introduction to Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City
• 'Mumbai Revisited', review of Mumbai Fables in the Oxonian Review