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

  1. Book CoverMapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial


    Part of Verso’s classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world.More

  2. Book CoverWorlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present

    Second Edition / Volume(s): One-Volume

    True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart.More

  3. Book CoverWorlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present

    Third Edition / Volume(s): One-Volume

    The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible.More