Fellow 2023/2024 Prabhat Kumar
Prabhat Kumar was trained as a historian at University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He taught history at Presidency University, Kolkata before joining the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Broadly invested in the north Indian cultural history, he works on Hindi print media, both literary and visual in its myriad forms.
He is interested in exploring the vernacular articulations of modern political imaginaries, social sensibilities, their continued cultural appeal and presence in contemporary times. He is presently finishing a book manuscript on the local experiences of political and technological modernity and futuristic imaginations of global world order in South Asia during the Interwar years. He has curated and translated an anthology of eleven twentieth century Hindi stories on the theme of domestic servants. Titled Lesser Lives, the book is co-edited with Nitin Sinha. His has published his research articles in English and Hindi. He is co-editor of Pratiman: Samay Samaj Sankriti (biannual social science journal in Hindi).