Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar ( born November 30, 1931 in Lucknow ) is an Indian historian.

Life

Thapar studied at the Punjab University and received his doctorate in 1958 at AL Basham at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Later, she was a professor of ancient Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

It deals with ancient Indian history and especially in the social history of early India, for example, in the era of Ashoka and the Mauryan empire whose demise led her back to the highly centralized administration. She also wrote a popular book on early Indian history at Penguin.

She is a multiple honorary doctor (Oxford, Chicago, Paris, Calcutta, Hyderabad ) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford.

In 2008 she was awarded the Kluge Prize. In 2003 she was Kluge Professor of Library of Congress.

In 2002, she protested with other Indian historians against changes in Indian school textbooks ( in their submission in relation to Indian early history it was previously involved) to take considerations of Hindu religious sensibilities (formulations to the emergence of the caste system, evidence of beef eating in ancient India ). In 2006, she took in a similar way in California position against attempts Hindu groups to enforce changes in school textbooks.

Writings

  • A History of India, Volume 1, Penguin 1966
  • Thomas George Spencer Spear India. From the beginnings to the colonialism, Kindler's cultural history 1966
  • Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, Oxford University Press, 1961, 1998
  • Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, 1978
  • Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History, Oxford University Press, 2003
  • Dissent in the Early Indian Tradition Indian Renaissance Institute 1979
  • Early India: From Origins to AD 1300, Penguin 2002
  • Exile and the Kingdom: Some Thoughts on the Ramayana, University of California 1978
  • From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid -First Millennium BC in the Ganges Valley, Oxford University Press 1985
  • History and Beyond, Oxford University Press 2000
  • Interpreting Early India, Oxford University Press 1993, 1999
  • India: Another Millennium? Viking 2000
  • India: Historical Beginnings and the Concept of the Aryan National Book Trust 2006
  • Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories, Anthem 2002
  • Somanatha: The Many Voices of History, Verso 2005
  • The Mauryas Revisited, K. P. Bagchi 1987
  • Published by Indian Tales, Puffin 1991
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