Tripurdaman Singh is an award-winning historian, and currently an Ambizione Fellow at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He read Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and earned a Master of Philosophy in Modern South Asian Studies and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He has been a British Academy Fellow at the University of London, and held visiting fellowships at the University of Leiden, the Fondation Maison de Sciences de L’Homme in Paris, and the University of Basel. His books include Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics, Sixteen Stormy Days and Nehru.