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Dr Harleen Kaur recently completed her Joint PhD from South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore, and the India Institute, King’s College London. Her research, examines an urban history of New Delhi, c. 1947–1984, covering the evolution of the city’s built-environment and the socio-political, cultural, and global dynamics shaping it since independence. Trained as a historian at the University of Delhi and Dr B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, she has contributed to public history through heritage walks, archival research, and academic publications, alongside research roles with the National Council for Educational Research and Training and the Sufi Kathak Foundation. She takes interest in studies related to South Asia, Asian urbanism, urban history, urban studies, architectural history and the built-environment, planning and governance, and cities.
The Story of a Sikh Museum: Heritage, Politics, Popular Culture, published by Cambridge University Press in July 2025, is a pioneering study on Sikh m…