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'''N. Iqbal Singh''' (28 September 1912-1 January 2001) was an Indian writer, journalist and broadcaster, known for his accounts of [[Amrita Sher-Gil]], [[Muhammad Iqbal]], [[Buddha]], and the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]].<ref name=Open>{{cite web |title=Iqbal Singh {{!}} Making Britain |url=https://www5.open.ac.uk/research-projects/making-britain/content/iqbal-singh |website=www5.open.ac.uk |publisher=The Open University |access-date=17 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117170102/https://www5.open.ac.uk/research-projects/making-britain/content/iqbal-singh|archive-date=17 November 2023}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
N. Iqbal Singh was born on 28 September 1912 in [[Abbottabad]], then in British India and later in [[Pakistan]].<ref name=Open/> He completed his education in England and France.<ref name=Open/><br />
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==Works==<br />
In 1927 Singh published a book on Buddha.<ref name=Open/> In London, he co-founded the magazine ''Indian Writing'' and was active with the India League.<ref name=Open/><ref name=Gupta2023>{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Diya |title=India in the Second World War: An Emotional History |date=2023 |publisher=Hurst Publishers |location=London |isbn=978-1-78738-945-8 |page=258 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1iu8EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT258 |language=en |chapter=4. An anguished heart: witnessing the Indian home-front}}</ref><ref name=Nasta2020>{{cite book |last1=Nasta |first1=Susheila |last2=Stein |first2=Mark U. |title=The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing |date=2020 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-19544-8 |page=160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q23IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT160 |language=en}}</ref> His book ''The ardent pilgrim: an introduction to the life and work of Mohammed Iqbal'' (1957) was initially declined by [[Allen & Unwin]], and then published by [[Oxford University Press]].<ref name=Ranasinha2007>{{cite book |last1=Ranasinha |first1=Ruvani |title=South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation |date=2007 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-920777-0 |pages=17–18 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HTkTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 |language=en |chapter=1. Shifting conditions: the changing markets for South Asian writing in Britain during the twentieth century}}</ref><br />
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==Selected works==<br />
*{{cite book |title=Gautama Buddha |date=1927 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195639247}}<br />
*{{cite book |title=The ardent pilgrim: an introduction to the life and work of Mohammed Iqbal |date=1951 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195639797}}<br />
*{{cite book |title=The Andaman story |date=1978 |publisher=Vikas Publishing House |isbn=978-0-70690-632-5}}<br />
*{{cite book |title=Amrita Sher-Gill: A Biography |date=1984 |publisher=Vikas Publishing House |isbn=0-7069-2474-6}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=Singh,%20Iqbal,%201912-2001 List of works]<br />
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