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Rajbir Singh Judge is Associate Professor of History and Associate Member of Asian and Asian American Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He received his PhD in History at University of California, Davis in 2018. He was then a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University until Fall 2020. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of South Asia with a particular emphasis on Punjab and the Sikh tradition.
His first book, Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia was published by Columbia University Press in 2024. Prophetic Maharaja was awarded “Best First Book in the History of Religions” by the American Academy of Religion. Judge is currently at work on his second book manuscript, titled A Critique of Contextual Reason. He was awarded a membership in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 2024-2025 to complete this manuscript. If for some odd reason you want to know more about Rajbir Singh Judge, click the buttons below. If you are feeling especially inspired, you can also follow him on X, which, alas, he does not use often. |