Prof Pratik Chakrabarti FRHistS
Chair in History of Science, Tech & Mdcn

Publications
- 2021
- Accepted/In press
Situating the Empire in History of Science
Chakrabarti, P., 2021, (Accepted/In press) Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire. Goss, A. (ed.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- Accepted/In press
The “Indian Predicament”: Medical Education in Modern India 1915–1960’
Chakrabarti, P. & Ruddock, A., 2021, (Accepted/In press) History of Medical Education. Lamb, S. & Gavrus, D. (eds.). McGill University, 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- 2020
- Published
Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity
Chakrabarti, P., 13 Oct 2020, Johns Hopkins University Press. 280 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- Published
Suman Seth, Difference and disease: Medicine, race, and the eighteenth‐century British Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 336 pp. ISBN: 9781108418300
Chakrabarti, P., 4 May 2020, In: Centaurus.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
- Published
‘Science and Imperialism since 1870’
Chakrabarti, P. & Worboys, M., 6 Apr 2020, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Vol. 8. p. 9-31Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- 2019
- Published
Gondwana and the Politics of Deep Past
Chakrabarti, P., 1 Feb 2019, In: Past & Present. 242, 1, p. 119-153 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gty016 - 2017
- Published
‘Health and Disease since 1700’
Chakrabarti, P., 24 Nov 2017, The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
- 2016
- Published
'"The World Rests on the Back of a Tortoise"; Science and Mythology in Indian History'
Chakrabarti, P. & Sen, J., 2 Jun 2016, In: Modern Asian Studies. 50, 3, p. 808-840 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2015
- Published
‘Purifying the River: Pollution and Purity of Water in Colonial Calcutta’
Chakrabarti, P., 1 Aug 2015, In: Studies in History (New Delhi). 31, 2, p. 178-205 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Science
Chakrabarti, P., Dharampal-Frick, G. (ed.), Dwyer, R. (ed.), Kirloskar, M. (ed.) & Phalkey, J. (ed.), 2015, Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies. Delhi: Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
- 2014
- Published
Medicine and Empire: 1600-1960
Chakrabarti, P., 2014, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 246 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- 2012
- Published
‘Introduction’ to the Special issue on ‘States of Healing: New Perspectives on the State in Histories of Medicine’
Chakrabarti, P., 2012, In: South Asian History and Culture.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics
Chakrabarti, P., 2012, Hardback ed. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. (Rochester Studies in Medical History)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- Published
Sloane’s Travels; A Colonial History of Gentlemanly Science’
Chakrabarti, P., Walker, A. (ed.), MacGregor, A. (ed.) & Hunter, M. (ed.), 2012, From Books to Bezoars: Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections. London: British LibraryResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2011
- Published
‘An Experimental Theatre for Vaccines: Bombay in the time of Plague’, Commentary: Choksy NH: Professor Lustig's Plague Serum’
Chakrabarti, P., 2011, In: International Journal of Epidemiology. p. 1-2 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2010
- Published
‘“Living versus Dead”: The Pasteurian Paradigm and Imperial Vaccine Research’
Chakrabarti, P., 2010, In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine. p. 387-423 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
‘Beasts of Burden: Animals and Laboratory Research in Colonial India’
Chakrabarti, P., 2010, In: History of Science. p. 125-152 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
‘Empire and Alternatives: Swietenia Febrifuga and the Cinchona Substitutes’
Chakrabarti, P., 2010, In: Medical History. p. 75-94 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
‘Networks of Medicine: Trade and Medico-Botanical knowledge in Eighteenth Century Coromandel Coast’
Chakrabarti, P. & Bandopadhyay, A. (ed.), 2010, Science and Society in India, 1750-2000. New Delhi: Monahar Books, p. 49-82Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- Published
‘Science and Swadeshi': The Establishment and Growth of the Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works’
Chakrabarti, P. & Gupta, U. D. (ed.), 2010, Science and Modern India: An Institutional History c.1784-1947. New Delhi: Pearson Education, p. 117-142Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- Published
'Curing Cholera: Pathogens, Places and Poverty in South Asia’
Chakrabarti, P., 2010, International Journal of South Asian Studies. Kyoto, Japan: Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, p. 153-168Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- Published
Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century
Chakrabarti, P., 2010, Hardback ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Studies in Imperialism)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- 2009
- Published
‘“Signs of the Times”: Medicine and Nationhood in British India’
Chakrabarti, P., 2009, In: Osiris (Chicago). p. 188-211 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2007
- Published
‘Medical Marketplace beyond the West: Bazaar Medicine, Trade and the English Establishment in Eighteenth Century India’
Chakrabarti, P., Wallis, P. (ed.) & Jenner, M. (ed.), 2007, Medicine and the Market in Early Modern England and its Colonies, c. 1450-c. 1850. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan LtdResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- Published
‘Science in India in the Twentieth Century’
Chakrabarti, P. & Dasgupta, J. B. (ed.), 2007, Science, Technology, Imperialism and War. New Delhi: Pearson Education, p. 121-173Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2006
- Published
‘“Neither of meate nor drinke, but what the Doctor alloweth”: Medicine amidst War and Commerce in Eighteenth Century Madras’
Chakrabarti, P., 2006, In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine. p. 1-38 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2004
- Published
Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices
Chakrabarti, P., 2004, Hardback ed. Delhi: Permanent Black. (Opus 1)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- 2001
- Published
‘Science, Morality, and Nationalism: The Multifaceted Project of Mahendralal Sircar’
Chakrabarti, P., 2001, In: Studies in History (New Delhi). p. 245-274 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2000
- Published
‘Science, Nationalism, and Colonial Contestations: P. C. Ray and his Hindu Chemistry’
Chakrabarti, P., 2000, In: Indian Economic & Social History Review. p. 185-213 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 1999
- Published
‘Asiatic Society and its Vision of Science: Metropolitan Knowledge in a Colonial World’
Chakrabarti, P., 1999, In: Calcutta Historical Journal. p. 1-32 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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