Faculty

Our faculty is comprised of expert scholars and educators in the fields of Yoga Studies, Indology, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.

Dr. Jvala Singh

Lecturer, UC Berkeley; PhD, University of British ColumbiaĀ 

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Jvala Singh is a lecturer for UC Berkeley at the Institute for South Asia Studies. He is currently completing his PhD at the University of British Columbia, where he is examining pre-colonial Sikh historical narratives. His research explores literature in Punjabi and Brajbhāṣā from the 18th and 19th centuries, building off his previous M.A. research completed at the University of Toronto, where he focused on Sikh Brajbhāṣā versions of Sanskrit epics, such as theĀ Rāmāyaṇa.

In furthering the accessibility of pre-colonial Sikh Brajbhāṣā texts, Singh runs theĀ Suraj Podcast, where each episode is a chapter summary in English of the voluminousĀ SÅ«raj Prakāś (1843 CE)—a historical narrative covering the lives of the ten Sikh Gurus written by Santokh Singh (1787-1844).

Courses taught:Ā 

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