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Completed
post graduation in modern Indian history and
Ph.D on the ideology and programme of the national
revolutionaries in the 1920s. Taught for four years
before joining the National Institute of Science,
Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi in 1982.
Engaged in research on issues related to history of
science and science education in the mid ninteenth and
the early twentieth century India. Authored/edited
several books including Situating the History of
science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham, (Oxford,
1999); Domesticating Modern Science, (Tulika, 2004);
Social History of Science in Colonial India, (Oxford,
2007); and UNESCO's History of Humanity, Vol.VII,
(Paris, 2008). His most recent book in To Make the
Deaf Hear, published in 2007, its Hindi version
appeared in 2008 while its Tamil edition came out in
2009. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the State
University of New York and also a Research Associate
at REHSEIS, CNRS, Paris.
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