Sunday, 25 December 2011

Deepak Kumar (Historian) 27-December

Deepak Kumar (born 1952) is an Indian Historian. His specialization is history of science in India. Currently, he is a Professor of History of Science and Education, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has sought to demonstrate in several of his books that Britishcolonialism in India played a major role in how European 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.

  • 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.


 
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