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25 produkter
History of India
Häftad, 1990
160 kr
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A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics
Just Being
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2026
500 kr
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Historian Romila Thapar reflects on a rich, path-breaking life—and the ideas, friendships, and journeys that shaped her.In Just Being, historian Romila Thapar invites us into her illustrious world—a rich, extensive memoir from a scholar who has profoundly shaped our understanding of India’s past …
Past as Present
Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
Inbunden, 2019
228 kr
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Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between the past and present or an exacting understanding …
Penguin History of Early India
From the Origins to AD 1300
E-bok, 2003
136 kr
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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 knowledge developed during her lifetime, Thapar tells the extraordinary story of this great …
History of India
E-bok, 1990
122 kr
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A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics
The Historian and her Craft
Collected Essays and Lectures (4 volume set)
Inbunden, 2018
5881 kr
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This is a set of four volumes aimed at bringing together the best research by Romila Thapar to showcase her academic contributions to the understanding of history and historiography in India. The four volumes will focus on bringing together all the lectures and papers on an area of her …
Sakuntala
Texts, Readings, Histories
Inbunden, 2011
1323 kr
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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 Recollection. In these two texts, Sakuntala undergoes a critical transformation, relinquishing her …
Sakuntala
Texts, Readings, Histories
Häftad, 2011
692 kr
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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 Recollection. In these two texts, Sakuntala undergoes a critical transformation, relinquishing her …
Sakuntala
Texts, Readings, Histories
E-bok, 2011
507 kr
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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 Recollection . In these two texts, Sakuntala undergoes a critical transformation, relinquishing her …
Past Before Us
Historical Traditions of Early North India
Inbunden, 2021
723 kr
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“An authority on thousands of years of India’s past, Thapar has a rare and special perspective on the country it was and the country it is becoming.” —Financial TimesWinner of the Kluge Prize Romila Thapar presents a sweeping survey of the historical traditions of North India, revealing a deep …
Voices of Dissent: An Essay
Inbunden, 2021
154 kr
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People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments that the very concept of dissent was imported into India from the West. As Romila Thapar explores …
Indian Cultures as Heritage
Contemporary Pasts
Inbunden, 2021
228 kr
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Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live and express themselves and how they value objects and thoughts. Recently, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes Indian culture and heritage and about how much diversity those categories ought to contain. Romila Thapar …
Somanatha
The Many Voices of a History
Häftad, 2015
374 kr
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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 India, but in the House of …
Our History, Their History, Whose History?
Inbunden, 2024
182 kr
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An overview of nationalism and its impact on the study of history from one of India’s most prominent historians. In this timely book, historian Romila Thapar delves into the complex world of nationalism and its impact on the interpretations of the past and on the discipline of history itself. …
Idea of India
A Dialogue
Av Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Romila Thapar
Inbunden, 2024
114 kr
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A lively discussion between two eminent Indian academics that examines what it means to be an Indian. Through a stimulating dialogue, two old friends trace the history of the idea of India through digressions, anecdotes, and observations. Historian Romila Thapar and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty …
Present Colonizes the Past
The Future Forsaken?
Häftad, 2026
171 kr
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Short, rigorous intervention on history-writing in public life.How does the present reshape what a society chooses to remember as its past? Recent interpretations of India's history have replaced careful inquiry with narratives that mirror contemporary anxieties and ambitions, sidelining the …
Past as Present
Inbunden, 2014
558 kr
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Many popularly held views about the past need to be critically enquired into before they can be taken as historical. For instance, what was the aftermath of the raid on the Somanatha temple? Which of us is Aryan or Dravidian? Why is it important for Indian society to be secular? When did …
On Nationalism
Inbunden, 2016
471 kr
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What is true nationalism? What is pseudo-nationalism? What is anti-national? What is patriotism? Is the shouting of nationalist slogans important to prove one's patriotism? Why is Bharat Mata ki Jai so important to the right wing? Why does theaw of sedition continue to exist on the statute book of …
Which of Us are Aryans?
Rethinking The Concept of Our Origins
Inbunden, 2018
485 kr
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The question of which of us is Aryan is one of the most contentious in India today. In this eyeopening book, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history, genetics, early Vedic scriptures, archaeology andinguistics to test and challenge various hypotheses, myths, …
Speaking of History
Conversations about India’s Past and Present
Inbunden, 2025
477 kr
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Speaking of History brings India’s past into sharp, urgent focus. In these wide-ranging conversations, Romila Thapar, the distinguished historian, joins Namit Arora, incisive writer and social critic, to explore how history is written, remembered and fought over. Together, they pull back the …
