Department of History Indraprastha College for Women
Research & Publications of Mr. Gagan Preet Singh Articles in Books & Journals 1. Gagan Preet Singh, “‘Crusades against Arms’: ‘Murder’ and ‘Disarmament’ in transIndus Districts of Punjab, 1890-1900”, in Kaushik Roy (ed.), Warfare and Politics in South Asia from Ancient to Modern Times (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2011), 269309. 2. Gagan Preet Singh, ‘“The Kitchen Front”: World War II and Food Rationing in India’, Journal of Regional History, Vol. 27, 2011, pp.73-100 (ISSN: 0972-3781). 3. Gagan Preet Singh, “Industrial growth in two border cities of the Punjab”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. L, No. 10, 7 March 2015.
Book Reviews 1. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Farina Mir, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab (Berkeley, 2010), in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 35:2 (2012), 499-500. 2. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Omar Khalidi, Khaki and Ethnic Violence in India: Armed Forces, Police and Paramilitary during Communal Riots (Gurgaon, 2010), in Contemporary South Asia, 20:4 (2012), 544-545. 3. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Pritam Singh, Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy (Oxon, 2008), in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 34:3 (2012), 512-513. 4. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Maia Ramnath, Haj to Utopia : How the Ghadar Movement Charter Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (Berkeley, 2011), in Contemporary South Asia, 22:2 (2014) 5. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Himani Bannerji, Demography & Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology (New Delhi, 2011), in Social Scientist, 40:5-6 (2012), 101-103. 6. Gagan Preet Singh, ‘A radical history of Assam, 1826-1947’, review of Jayeeta Sharma, Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India (Durham, 2011), online at http://www.newasiabooks.org/publication/empires-garden-assam-and-makingindia#comment-19574. 7. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Gajendra Singh, The Testimonies of the Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars: Between Self and Sepoy (London, 2014), in Reviews in History, London, Review No.1689. 8. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Saurabh Dube and Anupama Rao (eds), Crime through Time: Themes in Indian History (New Delhi, 2013), in Social Scientist, Vol. 510-11, 2016, pp.76-78. 9. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Mark Brown, Penal Power and Colonial Rule (Abingdon, 2014), in South Asian History and Culture, November 2015.
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Department of History Indraprastha College for Women
10. Gagan Preet Singh, review of Smriti Kumar Sarkar, Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India, 1830-1980 (New Delhi, 2014), in The Book Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No.9, September 2014, pp.25-26.
Presented papers in workshops, conferences etc. 1. Gagan Preet Singh, “The Strange Science: Tracking and Detection in Colonial Punjab”, presented in conference “Locating Forensic Science and Medicine”, University of Notre Dame Global Gateway, Trafalgar Square, London, 24 July-25 July 2015. 2. Gagan Preet Singh, “The Second World War and Food Rationing in India: Collieries, Cantonments, and Jails, 1939-46”, presented in conference on “The British Empire and the Second World War”, Kellogg College, Oxford, 21-22 Sept. 2013. 3. Gagan Preet Singh, “Joys and Sorrows of Living Together in British Punjab”, presented in conference on “Voices of Partition”, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 21 November 2014. 4. Gagan Preet Singh, “Police and Communal Violence in British Punjab: A case for reassessment”, presented in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Emerging Trends in Historiography of the Punjab”, 18 March 2011, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. 5. Gagan Preet Singh, “Policing the Partition Violence, 1947”, presented in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Communal Problem in the Punjab (1932-47), 2-3 March 2012, G.H.G. Khalsa College, Ludhiana.
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