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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 BrajbhÄį¹£Ä from the 18th and 19th centuries, building off his previous M.A. research completed at the University of Toronto, where he focused on Sikh BrajbhÄį¹£Ä versions of Sanskrit epics, such as theĀ RÄmÄyaį¹a.
In furthering the accessibility of pre-colonial Sikh BrajbhÄį¹£Ä texts, Singh runs theĀ Suraj Podcast, where each episode is a chapter summary in English of the voluminousĀ SÅ«raj PrakÄÅĀ (1843 CE)āa historical narrative covering the lives of the ten Sikh Gurus written by Santokh Singh (1787-1844).
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