Romila Thapar specializes in early Indian history and is professor emerita in history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In 1983 she was elected general president of the Indian History Congress and in 1999 a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. Her best known works are
Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas,
From Language to State,
Interpreting Early India, and
Time as a Metaphor of History: Early India.
11 Ebook di Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar: Sakuntala
The figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the
Mahabharata and in Kalidisa’s fourth-century Sanskrit play,
Sakuntala and the Ring of …
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€36.99
Romila Thapar: From Lineage to State
This book is a concise collection of lectures which discuss the nature of early Indian society during the mid-first millennium BC and relate it to the ancient Indian historical tradition in its …
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€14.22
Romila Thapar: AAoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
This classic provides a comprehensive account of the hstory of the Mauryas with a special emphasis on the reign and activities of Asoka. It examines the sources, socio-economic conditions, …
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€14.67
Neeladri Bhattacharya & Ramin Jahanbegloo: Talking History
In a series of candid conversations, Romila Thapar, a widely read, discussed, and cited historian of our times, muses on a range of issues that impact history writing in modern India. Apart from …
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€31.40
Romila Thapar: Itihas, Kaal aur Adikalin Bharat
In this book, Romila Thapar examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While the former occurs in a cosmological context, the latter is found in …
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€5.25
Romila Thapar: Past Before Us
The claim that India–uniquely among civilizations–lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in …
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€51.49
Romila Thapar: Indian Tales
The 16 stories in this collection of Indian heroes and heroines, their adventures, misfortunes and triumphs, of gods and demons and of animals, have been told to generations of children over the …
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€8.82
Romila Thapar: Somanatha
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 …
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€11.29
Romila Thapar: Penguin History of Early India
WINNER OF THE KLUGE PRIZE FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2008 Early India a complete rewrite of Romila Thapar s A History of India (Volume 1) brings to life thousands of years of India s precolonial …
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€18.26
Romila Thapar: Penguin History of Early India
This new book represents a complete rewriting of Romila Thapar’s hugely successful HISTORY OF INDIA – VOLUME ONE, thirty-four years after it was first published. Incorporating the vast changes in …
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€11.99
Romila Thapar: A History of India
A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India”s cultural …
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€10.99
