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Gyan Prakash is a historian of modern India and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. Prakash is a member of the Subaltern Studies collective.
Educated in India and the United States, Gyan Prakash specializes in the history of modern India. His general field of research and teaching interests concerns urban modernity, the colonial genealogies of modernity, and problems of postcolonial thought and politics.
Jan 26, 2019 · Historian Gyan Prakash’s Emergency Chronicles explores modern India’s most traumatic memory: the state of Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975. The act suspended Indian...
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Gyan Prakash is a historian who studies urban modernity, colonial legacies, and postcolonial politics in India. He has published books on Mumbai, utopia, dystopia, and the Emergency, and co-wrote a film adaptation of his novel.
May 15, 2015 · Gyan Prakash is a historian who wrote Mumbai Fables, a book that explores the city's history through stories and myths. He also co-wrote the script of Bombay Velvet, a movie based on his book, directed by Anurag Kashyap.
Oct 19, 2021 · Among the monographs published on the Emergency, Gyan Prakash’s Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point (2018) remains distinctive for its multidisciplinary analysis and gripping storytelling.
Jun 20, 2024 · Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton, where he teaches the history of modern South Asia, colonialism, and postcolonial thought. His latest book is Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point.
