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.
Prakash received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Delhi in 1973, his Master's degree in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1975, and his doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
He has also written several books, including Mumbai Fables (2010), which was adapted into the 2015 film Bombay Velvet directed by Anurag Kashyap.
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