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Romila Thapar (born 30 November 1931) is an Indian historian. Her principal area of study is ancient India, a field in which she is pre-eminent. Thapar is a Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Apr 22, 2022 · Far from it. Thapar, 90, has a claim to be India’s greatest living historian. An authority on thousands of years of India’s past, she has a rare and special perspective on the country it was ...
Jan 2, 2021 · NEW DELHI — Romila Thapar is the preeminent historian of ancient India, an octogenarian feted the world over for her scholarship excavating answers to questions at the heart of the country's...
Apr 20, 2021 · Professor Romila Thapar taught Ancient Indian History at Kurukshetra University, Delhi University and Jawaharlal University. In 1991, she retired from JNU, where she is at present Professor...
Oct 31, 2020 · Rohan Venkataramakrishnan. Oct 31, 2020 · 06:30 am. Renowned historian and public intellectual Romila Thapar, author of 'Voices of Dissent.' | Sujaan Mukherjee. Romila Thapar is one of India’s ...
Historian. Romila Thapar is an Indian historian and a leading scholar on ancient India. She is currently Professor Emerita in History at Jawaharlal Nehru University but has served as a visiting professor at a number of academic institutions around the world including London University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the ...
"One of the world's most eminent historians of India, Thapar gives us a thoroughly revised edition of her authoritative general history. This one contains the accumulated research of the last...
