Crisis in the Western Himalayas: Reports of J.D. Cunningham, 1841-1842

Dr. Surinder Singh, after a short spell as a Research scholar in Delhi University and as a Lecturer in Political Science, Government College, Gurdaspur, was selected to the Indian Defence Accounts Service, where he served from 1956 to 1987. After retirement, Surinder Singh took up the study of Sikh coinage, of which he had collected over a thousand pieces, during the last few years of his service in Punjab. He has published over thirty research papers in reputed national and international journals and books. Dr. Singh is at present working on the ‘Concept of Sikh Sovereignty’ as a Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhij.