Tripurdaman Singh

Tripurdaman Singh is a historian of South Asia and currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Born in Agra, India, Tripurdaman read politics and international studies at the University of Warwick, and subsequently earned an MPhil in modern South Asian studies and a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge. He has been an Indian Council of Historical Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Agra, and a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Universiteit Leiden and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and 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). He lives in Cambridge, UK and Agra, India.