Contact
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG, 417
D-80802 Munich
Phone:
+49 (0) 89/2180-72348
Email:
vipul.singh@rcc.lmu.de
Vipul Singh is an environmental historian and an associate professor of medieval history in the Department of History at the University of Delhi, India. His research in the environmental humanities focuses on society, culture, migration, and transformation of land use and cropping patterns in river basins and arid zones with a long-term perspective. His research interests also include vernacular literature. He enjoys teaching Conservation, Science, and Technology, a global environmental history course, to MA students, and he is a member of the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH). At the Rachel Carson Center he is writing a book with the working title Song of the River: An Environmental History of the Middle Ganga Plain, in which he looks at the long-term history of the Ganga River and the people living along it.
RCC Research Project: Song of the River: An Environmental History of the Middle Ganga Plain
Selected Publications:
- “Where Many Rivers Meet: River Morphology and Transformation of Pre-Modern River Economy in Mid-Ganga Basin, India.” Springer, forthcoming.
- “Gangetic Floods: Landscape Transformation, Embankments, and Clay Brick-Making.” In “Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times,” edited by Ursula Münster, Shiho Satsuka, and Gunnel Cederlöf, RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 3, 23–8.
- “Environmental Migration as Planned Livelihood Among the Rebaris of Western Rajasthan, India.” Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences 9 (2012): 50–73.
- The Human Footprint on Environment: Issues in India. Delhi: Macmillan India, 2012.
- “Could Religion Act as a Force for Conservation? Case of a Semi-Arid Zone in India.” In Conservation of Architecture, Urban Areas, Nature, and Landscape: Towards a Sustainable Survival of Cultural Landscape, edited by Andrew Dolkart, Osama M. Al-Gohari, and Samia Rab. Amman: CSAAR, 2011. 2: 427–38.