David Arnold (historian)

David Arnold ( born 1946 ) is a British historian. He deals with the history of South Asia, especially India.

Arnold studied at the University of Sussex with a bachelor 's degree in 1968 and his doctorate in 1973. He was Professor of South Asian History at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. From 2006 he was professor of Asian History and Global History at the University of Warwick, where he is now Professor Emeritus. 2007-2010 he was there ESRC professor.

He dealt with the colonial India, by independence movements to the history of health care, and science and technology history. He wrote a biography of Gandhi.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Asiatic Society.

Writings

• South Asia, New Fischer World History, 2012
• Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth - Century India, University of California Press 1993
• The Congress in Tamilnad: nationalist politics in South India, 1919-1937. New Delhi 1977
• Police power and colonial rule. Madras, 1859-1947, Oxford UP 1986
• The Problem of Nature: environment, culture and European expansion. Blackwell 1996
• Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press 2000
• Gandhi. Routledge 2001
• Famine: social crisis and historical change. Blackwell 1988
• The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze. Delhi 2006
• The Age Discovery 1400-1600. London: Methuen 1983, Routledge, 2nd edition 2002
• Everyday technology: machines and the making of India 's modernity. University of Chicago Press 2013
• Editor of the 2nd edition of Burton Stein History of India, Blackwell 2010