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Deepak Kumar

Retired Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

220

Off. Phone

011-26704416

Residence

011-26741303/09899933726

deepakkumar[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in deepakjnu2008[at]gmail[dot]com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/

Qualifications

Ph.D. (History)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

History of Science & Education in Modern India

Experience

Lecturer, Department of History, Kurukshetra University, 1976-1983.

Scientist, History and Philosophy of Science Division, NISTADS, 1983-1997.

Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 1998-1999

Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 2000 to date.

Administrative Experience:

Head, History and Philosophy of Science Division, NISTADS, (CSIR), 1986-1996.

Chairman, Z.H.Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 2002-2004, again 2010 - 2011.

Chairman, Campus Development Committee, JNU, 2005-2007.

Senior Warden, Sabarmati Hostel, JNU, 1999-2005.

Director, Educational Records Research Unit, JNU, 2004 - 2010

Founder Chairman, Media Research Centre, SSS, JNU, June 2010 onward

Awards & Honours

President and Convenor, 20th International Association of Historians of Asia Conference, held at JNU, New Delhi, on 14-17 Nov. 2008.

President, International Commission on Science & Empire, IUHPS/DHS, 1997-2001.

President of the Modern India Section, Indian History Congress, 60th Session, Calicut, December 1999.

Professor R.C.Gupta Endowment History of Science Lecture Award given by the National Academy of Science, Allahabad, July 2001.

President, South Asia Section, Indian Association of Asian and Pacific Studies, Second Biennial Conference, Sambalpur University, 29-31 Jan. 2004.

Vice-President, International Association of Historians of Asia, 2004-06, elected at the 18th IAHA Conf. held at Taipei in 2004.

Member, Academie Internationale D’Histoire des Sciences, Paris.

Vice-President, Association of South Asian Environmental Historians, 2007- 2009, reelected 2010.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self and Society in Contemporary India, OUP, Delhi, 2016.

Science and the Raj, Enlarged Second Edition by OUP, Delhi, in Jan.06. Paperback in Sept.06, reprint 2011.

Earlier Hindi version published by Granthsilpi, Delhi, in 1998. Urdu version published by NCPUL, New Delhi in 2009. Bengali translation titled British Bharter Vijnan, Sujan Pub., Kolkata, 2007.Translation in Telugu and Tamil also in progress.

Technology and the Raj, jointly edited with Professor Roy MacLeod of Sydney University, SAGE, New Delhi, 1995. Enlarged Hindi version was published by Granthshilpi, Delhi in 2002.

Edited with Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D’Souza, The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia, OUP, Delhi, 2010.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

"Reason, Science and Religion: Gleanings from the Colonial Past", Studies in People’s History, vol.1, issue 2, Dec. 2014, pp. 181-198.

"Science Administration: A Historical Outline", Social Scientist, vol. 43, nos. 1-2, Jan. 2015, pp. 31-42.

"HISTEM and the Making of Modern India – Some Questions and Explanations", Indian Journal of History of Science, vol.50, 4, 2015, pp. 616-628.

Patents (if any)