Tripurdaman Singh is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Born in Agra, India, Tripurdaman studied global politics at the University of Warwick and later earned an MPhil in modern South Asian studies and a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge. Singh is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, as well as the Royal Asiatic Society. He has authored many books, including Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (2019) as well as the widely acclaimed Sixteen Stormy Days (2020).