Tripurdaman Singh is an award-winning historian and writer. He is currently an Ambizione Fellow at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Tripurdaman earned an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He has been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and an Indian Council of Historical Research Fellow at the University of Agra. Tripurdaman has also held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, the Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme in Paris and the University of Basel, Switzerland. Tripurdaman won the Dan David Prize — the world’s largest prize for the study of history — in 2024. His books have been translated into several languages and include Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Nehru (William Collins, 2021) and the Ramnath Goenka Award-winning Sixteen Stormy Days (Bloomsbury 2024; Penguin 2020).