David John Arnold

David John Arnold is emeritus professor of Asian and global history at Warwick University. He is the author of Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition (University of California Press, 2021); Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2013); and The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 (University of Washington Press, 2006); and coeditor of Nature, Culture,...See more

David John Arnold is emeritus professor of Asian and global history at Warwick University. He is the author of Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition (University of California Press, 2021); Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2013); and The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 (University of Washington Press, 2006); and coeditor of Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia (Oxford University Press, 1995). See less