Siblings Daman Singh Parents Manmohan Singh | Name Upinder Singh Religion Sikhism | |
Books A history of ancient and early medieval India Aunts Nirman Kaur, Gobind Kaur, Narinder Kaur, Pritam Kaur, Gyan Kaur Similar People Manmohan Singh, Daman Singh, Amrit Singh, Nayanjot Lahiri, Gursharan Kaur | ||
Grandparents Amrit Kaur, Gurmukh Singh | ||
New Book On Political Violence In Ancient India
Upinder Singh is a historian and the head of the History Department at the University of Delhi. She is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences (History).
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- New Book On Political Violence In Ancient India
- Upinder Singh
- Education and professional life
- Personal life
- Honours
- Controversies
- Publications
- References
Upinder Singh
Education and professional life
Singh is an alumna of St. Stephen's College, Delhi and received PhD from McGill University, Canada. She has Master of Arts in History and an M.Phil. in History, both from the University of Delhi. She has Ph.D. at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, with a thesis titled Kings, Brahmanas, and Temples in Orissa: an epigraphic study (300-1147 CE).
She is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delhi.
Personal life
Singh is married to Vijay Tankha, a professor of Philosophy. They have two sons. She is the daughter of Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister of India, and Gursharan Kaur.
Honours
Singh was awarded the Netherlands Government Reciprocal Fellowship in 1985, to pursue research at the Instituut Kern, Leiden. She was awarded the Ancient India and Iran Trust/Wallace India Visiting Fellowship to pursue research in Cambridge and London in 1999. She was also a visiting fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Singh has received the prestigious Daniel Ingalls Fellowship at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University in 2005.
She is the National Coordinator for History at the Institute of Life Long Learning at the University of Delhi.
She was visiting professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, as the recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, May–June 2010.
Controversies
On February 25, 2008, right wing activists demonstrated in the University of Delhi campus, in protest of an essay by A.K. Ramanujan, titled Three Hundred Ramayanas. The activists felt the essay was offensive, and alleged that Singh was responsible for its inclusion in a list of recommended readings for the BA programme in history. The University denied the allegation and stated that Singh was "… neither the editor nor compiler of the book on Cultural History of Ancient India."