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| birth_date = 1952<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=index |url=https://archives.ashoka.edu.in/paper_details/98 |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=archives.ashoka.edu.in}}</ref><br />
| birth_place = India<br />
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| occupation = Historian<ref name=":0" /><br />
| years_active = 1976–present<ref name=":0" /><br />
| era = [[British Raj]]<br />
| known_for = Science and the Raj (1995)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deepak Kumar |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TWwTdnEAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref><br />
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'''Deepak Kumar''' is a professor of [[History of science|History of Science]] and Education, at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]], India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deepak Kumar {{!}} Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University |url=https://jnu.ac.in/content/deepakkumar |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=jnu.ac.in}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Kumar argues that [[British Raj|British colonial rule in India]] played a major role in how [[Europe]]an 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]].<br />
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A 2017 work is ''The Trishanku Nation'' reviewed in Sage Publications <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Menon |first=Shailaja |date=July 2017 |title=Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2230807516686431 |journal=History and Sociology of South Asia |language=en |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=223–226 |doi=10.1177/2230807516686431 |s2cid=157932478 |issn=2230-8075|url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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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." <br />
<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0376983615597337?journalCode=ihra | doi=10.1177/0376983615597337 | title=Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Joseph Bara, Nandita Khadria and Ch. Radha Gayathri (Eds), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights | year=2015 | last1=Gupta | first1=Vikas | journal=Indian Historical Review | volume=42 | issue=2 | pages=365–368 | s2cid=147698258 | url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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A number of his publications are cataloged at WorldCat:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Deepak+Kumar&dblist=638&fq=ap:%22kumar,+deepak%22&qt=facet_ap:|title=Deepak Kumar - Search Results|website=www.worldcat.org}}</ref> These include, as of August 2021, publications in English (983), German (6), Arabic (2), and Hindi (2).<br />
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==Books==<br />
* Kumar, Deepak (ed.), ''Science and Empire: Essays in Indian Context, 1700-1947''. Delhi: Anamika Prakashan, 1991<br />
* Kumar, Deepak (ed.), ''Disease and Medicine in India: A Historical Overview'', Tulika, 2001 {{ISBN|81-85229-51-1}}<br />
* Kumar, Deepak, ''Science and the Raj: A Study of British India'', Oxford University Press, 2006 (2nd edition) {{ISBN|0-19-568003-0}}<br />
* 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)<br />
* Kumar, Deepak, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D'Souza (eds.), ''The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia'', OUP, Delhi, 2010.<br />
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4405022 Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920]<br />
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* Kumar, Deepak & Chaube, Devendra (eds.), ''Hashiye ka Vritanta'' (Narrative of the Margins), in Hindi, Aadhar Publications, Panchkula, 2011.<br />
* Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) ''Medical Encounter in British India'', OUP, Delhi, 2013. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4405022 Medical Encounters in British India, 1820-1920]<br />
* Kumar, Deepak, J.Bara, N.Khadria and R. Gayathri (eds.), Education in Colonial India: Historical Insights, Manohar Books, Delhi, 2013.<br />
* Kumar, Deepak, ''The Trishanku Nation: Memory, Self, and Society in Contemporary India'', OUP, Delhi, 2016.<br />
* Kumar, Deepak and Raha, Bipasha (eds.), ''Tilling the Land: Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in Colonial India'', Primus, Delhi, 2016.<br />
*Kumar, Deepak and Rajsekhar Basu (eds.) ''Medical Encounter in British India'', OUP, Delhi, 2013.<br />
*Kumar, Deepak, Trishanku Rashtra, (in Hindi), Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi, 2018.<br />
*Kumar, Deepak, Aatam Khabar: Sanskriti, Samaj aur Hum, (in Hindi), Aakar Books, Delhi, 2022.<br />
*Kumar, Deepak, '''Culture' of Science and the Making of India'', Primus, Delhi, 2022.<br />
Kumar, Deepak, ''Science and Society in Modern India'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023.<br />
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Kumar, Deepak, ''Ghoom Charkhya Ghoom: Ek Safarnama'', (in Hindi), Aakar Books, Delhi, 2025.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
*[[Ziauddin Sardar|Sardar, Ziauddin]] and [[Borin Van Loon|Loon, Borin Van]] 2001. ''Introducing Science''. US: Totem Books (UK: Icon Books).<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927140505/http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/deepakkumar/ Prof. Deepak Kumar's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Faculty Page]<br />
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