Deepak Kumar was a professor of History of Science and Education, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
[1] Kumar argues that British colonial rule in India played a major role in how European scientific fields developed.
Awards & Honours President and Convenor, 20th International Association of Historians of Asia Conference, held at JNU, New Delhi, on 14–17 November 2008.
President, South Asia Section, Indian Association of Asian and Pacific Studies, Second Biennial Conference, Sambalpur University, 29–31 January 2004.
Selected Peer Reviewed Publications The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self and Society in Contemporary India, OUP, Delhi, 2016.
"Reason, Science and Religion: Gleanings from the Colonial Past", Studies in People’s History, vol.1, issue 2, December 2014, pp. 181–198.
"HISTEM and the Making of Modern India – Some Questions and Explanations", Indian Journal of History of Science, vol.50, 4, 2015, pp. 616–628.
Professor, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad Administrative Experience Head, History and Philosophy of Science Division, NISTADS, (CSIR), 1986-1996.
President, South Asia Section, Indian Association of Asian and Pacific Studies, Second Biennial Conference, Sambalpur University, 29–31 January 2004.
Lectures/Seminars/Talks Given abroad : The universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Lancaster, Bath, Berlin, Sussex, Paris, Amsterdam, Leiden, Tokyo, Kyoto, York, Oslo, Vilnius, Simon Fraser, British Columbia, York, Heidelberg, Marburg, Hannover, Canberra, Jerusalem, Denver, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, CUNY, New York, Clemson, South Carolina, Beijing, Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Istanbul, Lisbon, Seoul, NUS Singapore, Academia Sinica,Taipei, Chulalongkorn, Bangkok, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., IIAS, Leiden, MIT, Boston, NIAS, Copenhagen, and School at Harrow, London.
Fellowships: Have held visiting fellowships/professorships at the universities of Cambridge, Leiden, London, Wisconsin, Jerusalem, Santiniketan, York, Canberra, Sussex, Tehran, Burdwan, Jadavpur, Hyderabad, Denver, British Columbia, Vilnius, Banaras, Max Planck, Berlin, and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C..