Deepak Kumar (historian)

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Deepak Kumar
Born1952 [1]
India
OccupationHistorian [1]
Years active1976–present [1]
Era British Raj
Known forScience and the Raj (1995) [2]

Deepak Kumar is a professor of History of Science and Education, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. [3] Kumar has lectured at numerous universities within India and abroad, held visiting fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, London, Leiden, The Smithsonian Institution, etc. and has also taught at Wisconsin University, Madison, USA, and York University in Toronto, Canada. [1]

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Kumar argues that British colonial rule in India played a major role in how European scientific fields developed. One of his major works is Science and the Raj: A study of British India is in the field of history of science in India.

A 2017 work is The Trishanku Nation reviewed in Sage Publications [4]

In describing medical encounters in colonial India, Kumar argues that Western medical discourse occupied an important place in the process of colonization and it worked towards a scientific hegemony. "Indigenous systems were so marginalised that their practitioners often sought survival in resistance rather than collaboration." [5]

A number of his publications are cataloged at WorldCat: [6] These include, as of August 2021, publications in English (983), German (6), Arabic (2), and Hindi (2).

Books

Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920

Kumar, Deepak, Science and Society in Modern India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023.

Kumar, Deepak, Ghoom Charkhya Ghoom: Ek Safarnama, (in Hindi), Aakar Books, Delhi, 2025.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "index". archives.ashoka.edu.in. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  2. ↑ "Deepak Kumar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Deepak Kumar | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University". jnu.ac.in. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Menon, Shailaja (July 2017). "Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India" . History and Sociology of South Asia. 11 (2): 223–226. doi:10.1177/2230807516686431. ISSN   2230-8075. S2CID   157932478.
  5. ↑ Gupta, Vikas (2015). "Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Joseph Bara, Nandita Khadria and Ch. Radha Gayathri (Eds), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights" . Indian Historical Review. 42 (2): 365–368. doi:10.1177/0376983615597337. S2CID   147698258.
  6. ↑ "Deepak Kumar - Search Results". www.worldcat.org.

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