Gyan Prakash
Gyan Prakash (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is professor of
modern Indian history at Princeton University and a member of the
Subaltern Studies Editorial Collective. He is the author of Bonded
Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (1990),
Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999)
and Mumbai Fables (2010). Professor Prakash edited After
Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements
(1995) and Noir Urbanisms (2010), codited The Space of the Modern
City (2008) and Utopia/Dystopia (2010), and has written a number of
articles on colonialism and history writing. He is currently working
on a history of the city of Bombay. With Robert Tignor, he
introduced the modern world history course at Princeton University.
Books by Gyan Prakash
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