abstract:Gyan Prakash (born 1952) 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.
“Thisisagatedcommunity in thesky, ” saidGyan Prakash, authorof the new book “Mumbai Fables.” “It is in a wayreflectiveof how the rich areturning their faces awayfrom the city.”
The image of Mumbai as a liberal city ruled by law and reason has long turned out to be a chimera, according to GyanPrakash, author of Mumbai Fables, a brilliant book on the restless city.