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Deepak Kumar

b. 1986

Indian historian

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Born 1986. Deepak Kumar is an Indian author and historian.

Deepak Kumar is a professor of History of Science and Education, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 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.

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."

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

Books 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 Kumar, Deepak, Science and the Raj: A Study of British India, Oxford University Press, 2006 (2nd edition) Kumar, Deepak & Roy MacLeod (eds.), Technology and the Raj, SAGE, New Delhi, 1995 (Enlarged Hindi version was published by Granthshilpi, Delhi in 2002, 2nd edition with a new Preface, published by Aakar Books, Delhi, 2022) Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D'Souza (eds.), The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia, OUP, Delhi, 2010. Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920

Kumar, Deepak & Chaube, Devendra (eds.), Hashiye ka Vritanta (Narrative of the Margins), in Hindi, Aadhar Publications, Panchkula, 2011. Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) Medical Encounter in British India, OUP, Delhi, 2013. Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920 Kumar, Deepak, J.Bara, N.Khadria and R. Gayathri (eds.), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights, Manohar Books, Delhi, 2013. Kumar, Deepak, The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India, OUP, Delhi, 2016. Kumar, Deepak and Raha, Bipasha (eds.), Tilling the Land: Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in Colonial India, Primus, Delhi, 2016. Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) Medical Encounter in British India, OUP, Delhi, 2013. Kumar, Deepak, Trishanku Rashtra, (in Hindi), Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi, 2018. Kumar, Deepak, Aatam Khabar: Sanskriti, Samaj aur Hum, (in Hindi), Aakar Books, Delhi, 2022. Kumar, Deepak, 'Culture' of Science and the Making of India, Primus, Delhi, 2022. 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.

Kumar, Deeepak, 'Medical Knowledge and Public Health in British India', Routledge, London, New York, New Delhi, 2027.

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Member of the 13th Lok Sabha

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Indian historian

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Deepak Kumar is an author and historian.

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