Tripurdaman Singh

Tripurdaman Singh is a historian and writer, currently an Ambizione Fellow at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He is the author of three books – Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Sixteen Stormy Days (Penguin, 2020; Bloomsbury 2024) and Nehru (William Collins, 2021). Singh has published articles and commentary in several media outlets including The Times of India, The Indian Express, BBC Radio3, BBC World Service, Monocle Radio and others. Singh earned an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies and a PhD in History at the University of Cambridge. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and held Visiting Fellowships at the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme in Paris. Singh is a 2024 Dan David Prize winner.