Thapar

Dra. Romila Thapar

Catedrática Emérita de Historia, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Nueva Delhi).

Es Doctora Honoris Causa por la University of Chicago, el Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, la University of Oxford, la University of Edinburgh, la University of Calcutta y la University of Hyderabad.

Ganó en 2008 el Kluge Prize (el Nobel estadounidense) por sus logros en el campo de la historia.

e-mail: romilathapar@gmail.com

Algunas publicaciones recientes

The Past As Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History. Aleph.

The Past before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India. Harvard University Press.

Somanatha: the Many Voices of a History. Penguin Delhi.

Textos para descargar

«To Question or Not to Question? That Is the Question». Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, No. 50, pp. 33-39.

«Historical Traditions in Early India: c. 1000 BC to c. AD 600», en Feldherr, A. & Hardy, G., eds. The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600. Oxford University Press, pp. 553-576.

«Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India: Third Century BC to Sixth Century AD», en Feldherr, A. & Hardy, G., eds. The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600. Oxford University Press, pp. 577-600.

«Is secularism alien to Indian civilization?», en Singh, A. & Mohapatra, S., eds. Indian Political Thought: A Reader. Routledge.

«Early Indian History and the Legacy of D D Kosambi». Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43, No. 30, pp. 43-51.

«Historical Memory without History». Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42, No. 39, pp. 3903-3905.

«Decolonising the Past: Historical Writing in the Time of Sachin – and Beyond». Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40, No. 14, pp. 1442-1448.

«The Theory of Aryan Race and India: History and Politics». Social Scientist, Vol. 24, No. 1/3, pp. 3-29.

«Ideology and the Interpretation of Early Indian History». Review (Fernand Braudel Center), Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 389-411.