12 Facts About Upinder Singh

1.

Upinder Singh is an Indian historian who is Professor of History and Dean of Faculty at Ashoka University.

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2.

Upinder Singh is the former head of the History Department at the University of Delhi.

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3.

Upinder Singh is the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences.

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4.

Upinder Singh is a Professor in the Department of History at Ashoka University.

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5.

Upinder Singh is the daughter of Manmohan Upinder Singh, the former prime minister of India, and Gursharan Kaur.

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6.

Upinder Singh is married to Vijay Tankha, a professor of philosophy and has two sons.

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7.

Upinder Singh was awarded the Netherlands Government Reciprocal Fellowship in 1985, to pursue research at the Instituut Kern, Leiden.

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8.

Upinder Singh was a visiting fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

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9.

Upinder Singh has received the prestigious Daniel Ingalls Fellowship at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University in 2005.

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10.

Upinder Singh is the national coordinator for history at the Institute of Life Long Learning at the University of Delhi.

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11.

Upinder Singh was visiting professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, as the recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, May–June 2010.

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12.

The activists felt the essay was offensive, and alleged that Upinder Singh was responsible for its inclusion in a list of recommended readings for the BA programme in history.

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