Associate Research Fellow
Tripurdaman Singh is a historian and writer, broadly interested in modern South Asia and the themes of imperialism, decolonisation, constitutionalism and democracy. He has received prestigious fellowships from the Indian Council of Historical Research, the British Academy and the Swiss National Science Foundation, and held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden (the Netherlands), Maison de Sciences de L’Homme (Paris) and the University of Basel (Switzerland). His books include Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Nehru: The Debates that Defined India (William Collins, 2021) and the Ramnath Goenka Award-winning Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India (Penguin, 2021; Bloomsbury 2024).
Tripurdaman is also interested in contemporary politics, and his commentary has appeared in major news outlets including the BBC World Service, Monocle Radio, the Conversation, the Times of India, the Eastern Eye and the Indian Express. In 2024 he was one of the recipients of the Dan David Prize, the world’s largest prize for historians that recognises exceptional contributions to historical scholarship and public debate.
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