Gyan Prakash is a historian of modern India and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. Prakash is a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. Prakash received his

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degree in history from the

University of Delhi The Delhi University (DU, ISO 15919, ISO: ), also and officially known as the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate research university, research Central university (India), central university located in Delhi, India. It ...

in 1973, his

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in history from

Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU; ISO: Javāharalāla Neharū Viśvavidyālaya) is a public research university located in Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university ...

in 1975, and his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

in history from the

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in 1984. His field of research concerns urban modernity, genealogies of modernity, and problems of

postcolonial Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and extractivism, exploitation of colonized pe ...

thought and politics. He writes about modern South Asian history, comparative colonialism and postcolonial theory,

urban history Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, ur ...

, global history, and the

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient history, ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural science, natural, social science, social, and formal science, formal. Pr ...

. He has also written several books, including Mumbai Fables (2010), which was adapted into the 2015 film

Bombay Velvet ''Bombay Velvet'' is a 2015 Indian neo-noir crime film directed and co-produced by Anurag Kashyap, based on historian Gyan Prakash's book '' Mumbai Fables''. It stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Karan Johar in lead roles, Johar making h ...

directed by

Anurag Kashyap Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian filmmaker and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to films, the Government of France made him a Knight of the Ordre ...

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), *''Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point'' (2019), * (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)

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Princeton University Profile

"Myths of the Island City"
Gyan Prakash,
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"Imaging the Modern City, Darkly"
Prakash's introduction to ''Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City'' * , review of ''Mumbai Fables'' in the '' Oxonian Review'' Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni Delhi University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Historians of India Princeton University faculty 1952 births Living people {{India-historian-stub

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