Upinder Singh
Upinder Singh is an Indian historian and the former head of the History Department at the University of Delhi. Currently, she is the dean of faculty and professor of history at Ashoka University. She has edited and written several books including Kings, Brāhmaṇas and temples in Orissa: an epigraphic study AD 300-1147, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, Rethinking Early Medieval India: A Reader, and With Dhar, Parul Pandya & Vatsyayan, Kapila – Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories, Political Violence in Ancient India. Her area of specialisation is in ancient Indian history. In 2009, she was awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize for Social Sciences-Humanities. You can read more about her and her works, here.
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