S Irfan Habib has worked in the area of history of science as well as political history. After teaching History for a few years, he joined the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies in New Delhi, India.
Besides a large number of papers, he has also co-edited and authored with Dhruv Raina several books including Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham and Social History of Science in Colonial India. He has also co-authored Domesticating Modern Science in Colonial India. His book To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and his Comrades has been translated into several Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi and Bengali. His other book is Jihad or Ijtihad: Religious Orthodoxy and Modern Science in Contemporary Islam. He recently put together a volume on Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings and another one called Inquilab: Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution. Until recently, he held Maulana Azad Chair at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi.
Besides being a Fulbright scholar, he has been a visiting professor at several universities like Humboldt University, Berlin, University of Cambridge, University of Kolkatta, State University of New York, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, MIT, Cambridge Mass and others.
Twitter: @irfhabib