Draft:Environmentalist: Vipul Singh

Vipul Singh is a Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi. With a doctorate from Delhi University and Post- Doctorate from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, he has over 25 years of teaching experience at Delhi University. Apart from teaching, he is a dedicated researcher and has been mentoring many budding researchers in environmental history. His major area of focus has been ecologically harsh zones of India such as arid Western Rajasthan and flood plains of the Ganga. His other research interests include the study of fluvial landscapes, inland fisheries, plantation ecology, disease, migration, ecocriticism, and historical GIS. He is often seen on various National and International News Channels sharing his views on historical issues. Vipul Singh is an alumnus Carson Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany. He was also awarded by the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations for his continuous research on environmental history in 2019. His most recent publications include a book titled, Speaking Rivers: Environmental History of a Mid-Ganga Flood Country (2018), and research papers titled “Cyclones, Shipwrecks and Environmental Anxiety: British Rule and Ecological Change in the Andaman Islands, the 1780s to 1900s”, Global Environment (2020), and “Governing Fluvial Commons in Colonial Bihar: Alluvion and Diluvion Regulation and Decommonisation” (Routledge 2021); “Ecopolitical Space in a Riverine Landscape of South Asia”, Arcadia (2024). He is currently working on a book project on the effects of global climate anomalies during the Mughal rule. He is on the editorial board of the Water History journal published by Springer. He is a Life Member of Asian Association for Environmental History.