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Romila Thapar has 80 books on Goodreads with 22390 ratings. Romila Thapar’s most popular book is A History of India, Vol. 1: From Origins to 1300.
Romila Thapar’s new book touches on thought-provoking subjects including attitudes to knowledge, the role of women, the context of objects that identify cultures and ideas like social ...
Romila Thapar is one of the most celebrated Indian historians. Miss Thapar is the Professor Emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. The principal area of her study is Ancient India. Romila was born into a Punjabi Family to Daya Ram Thapar who had served as the Director General of the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services.
Romila Thapar is an eminent historian, whose core area of study is ancient India. Born on November 30, 1931 she is the daughter of army doctor Daya Ram Thapar. She attained a doctorate in Indian history from School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London in 1958. Thapar is currently Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru ...
Aug 17, 2005 · Romila Thapar. Verso, Aug 17, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 265 pages. In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reverberated in Indian history, but largely during the raj. It was first depicted as a trauma for the Hindu population not in ...
May 15, 2014 · Romila Thapar: What I was trying to emphasize, actually, certainly was that kingship was very pivotal and has a bearing on politics and governance and so forth, and is therefore important to record. But I was also trying to suggest that there is a transition from earlier forms of kingship that I have called ‘clan-based’ society, but they’re not kingships as such.
Aug 5, 2023 · Romila Thapar’s latest book, The Future in the Past (Aleph Book Company, Rs 999), is a collection of essays, new and old, on themes that the historian has engaged with during her long career — the myths around the coming of the Aryans, the centrality of dissent in democracies, the importance of public intellectuals and the insidious attempts by majoritarian governments to control narratives around ‘culture’.
