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{{Infobox person
| name = Romila Thapar
| image = Romila Thapar (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Thapar in 2016
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1931|11|30}}
| birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]], [[British India]]
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| other_names =
| known_for = Authoring books about Indian history
| father = [[Daya Ram Thapar]]
| relatives = [[Romesh Thapar]] (brother) [[Valmik Thapar]] (nephew) [[Pran Nath Thapar]] (uncle) [[Karan Thapar]] (cousin)
| occupation = Historian, Writer
| alma_mater = {{nowrap|[[Panjab University]] [[SOAS University of London]] ([[PhD]]) }}
| awards = Honorary doctorates [[University of Chicago]], [[University of Oxford]], [[Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales]], Paris, [[University of Edinburgh]], the [[University of Calcutta]], [[University of Hyderabad]], [[Brown University]], [[University of Pretoria]]. Inaugural holder, Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South, US [[Library of Congress]]; Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], winner [[Kluge Prize|John W Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity]], 2008.
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'''Romila Thapar''' (born 30 November 1931) is an Indian historian. Her principal area of study is [[History of India|ancient India]], a field in which she is pre-eminent.<ref name="Boyd2019-1">{{citation|last=Peterson|first=Indira Viswanathan|authorlink=Indira Viswanathan Peterson|editor=Kelly Boyd|title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_161DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR1202|year=2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis: Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-1-136-78764-5|pages=1202–|chapter=Romila Thapar 1931-|access-date=1 February 2021|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901063141/https://books.google.com/books?id=_161DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR1202|url-status=live}} Quotr: "The pre-eminent interpreter of ancient Indian history today. ... "</ref> Thapar is a Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in New Delhi.

Thapar's special contribution is the use of social-historical methods to understand change in the mid-first millennium BCE in northern India. As lineage-based Indo-Aryan pastoral groups moved into the [[Gangetic Plain]], they created rudimentary forms of [[caste]]-based [[State (polity)|states]]. The epics ''[[Ramayana]]'' and the ''[[Mahabharata]]'', in her analysis, offer vignettes of how these groups and others negotiated new, more complex, forms of loyalty in which stratification, purity, and exclusion played a greater if still fluid role.<ref name="Boyd2019-2">{{citation|last=Peterson|first=Indira Viswanathan|authorlink=Indira Viswanathan Peterson|editor=Kelly Boyd|title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_161DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR1202|year=2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis: Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-1-136-78764-5|pages=1202–|chapter=Romila Thapar 1931-|access-date=1 February 2021|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901063141/https://books.google.com/books?id=_161DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR1202|url-status=live}} Quote: "Among the major historians of ancient India in recent times, Thapar's emphasis on social history differentiates her approach from that of the cultural historian A. L. Basham, while her rejection of ideological frames of reference sets her work apart from that of the Marxist scholar D. D. Kosambi."</ref>

The author of ''From Lineage to State'', ''Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas'', ''Early India: From Origins to AD 1300'', and the popular ''History of India, Part I'', Thapar has received honorary doctorates from the [[University of Chicago]], the [[University of Oxford]], [[Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales]], Paris, the [[University of Edinburgh]], the [[University of Calcutta]], the [[University of Hyderabad]], [[Brown University]], and the [[University of Pretoria]].

Thapar is an Honorary Fellow of the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], London, where she also received her Ph.D. in 1958, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. In 2008, Romila Thapar shared the US [[Library of Congress]]'s [[Kluge Prize]], for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences.<ref>{{cite web|last=Garreau|first=Joel|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120202969.html|title=Historians Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Romila Thapar to Share 2008 Kluge Prize|work=washingtonpost.com|date=3 December 2008|access-date=1 February 2021|archive-date=11 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111200456/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120202969.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Early life, family and education==
Romila is the daughter of Lieutenant-General [[Daya Ram Thapar]], CIE, OBE, who served as the Director-General of the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services. The late journalist [[Romesh Thapar]] was her brother.<ref name="ThePrint">{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Nandita |title=Why is Karan Thapar complaining? His dynasty holds a key to Lutyens' Delhi |url=https://theprint.in/lutyens-league/why-is-karan-thapar-complaining-his-dynasty-holds-a-key-to-lutyenss-delhi/87308/ |access-date=2 April 2019 |work=The Print |date=2 January 2019 |archive-date=2 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402225738/https://theprint.in/lutyens-league/why-is-karan-thapar-complaining-his-dynasty-holds-a-key-to-lutyenss-delhi/87308/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As a child, she attended schools in various cities in India depending on her father's military postings. Later she attended intermediate of arts at [[Nowrosjee Wadia College|Wadia College]], [[Pune]]. After graduating from [[Panjab University]] in English literature, Thapar obtained a second bachelor's honours degree and a doctorate in Indian history under [[A. L. Basham]] from the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], the [[University of London]] in 1958.<ref name="penguin">{{cite web|title=Romila Thapar|url=http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/romila-thapar|publisher=Penguin India|access-date=12 December 2014|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225133133/https://penguin.co.in/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Work ==
She was a [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] in Ancient Indian History at [[Kurukshetra University]] in 1961 and 1962 and held the same position at [[Delhi University]] between 1963 and 1970. Later, she worked as Professor of Ancient Indian History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she is now Professor Emerita.<ref name="jnu">{{cite web | url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/sss/chs/RomilaThapar.pdf | title=Romila Thapar, Professor Emerita | publisher=JNU | access-date=7 December 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616014605/http://www.jnu.ac.in/sss/chs/RomilaThapar.pdf | archive-date=16 June 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Thapar's major works are ''Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas'', ''Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations'', ''Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History'' (editor), ''A History of India Volume One'', and ''Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300''.

Her historical work portrays the origins of [[Hinduism]] as an evolving interplay between social forces.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=126276 |title=Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History By Romila Thapar - History - Archaeology-Ancient-India |publisher=Oup.co.in |date=3 February 2003 |access-date=18 August 2014 |archive-date=4 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604064911/http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=126276 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her recent work on [[Somnath]] examines the evolution of the historiographies about the legendary Gujarat temple.<ref name="somanatha">[http://www.hindu.com/br/2004/04/27/stories/2004042700121600.htm Perspectives of a history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626000904/http://www.hindu.com/br/2004/04/27/stories/2004042700121600.htm |date=26 June 2006 }} – a review of ''Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History''</ref>

In her first work, ''Aśoka and the Decline of the Maurya'' published in 1961, Thapar situates [[Ashoka]]'s policy of ''dhamma'' in its social and political context, as a non-sectarian civic ethic intended to hold together an empire of diverse ethnicities and cultures. She attributes the decline of the [[Maurya Empire]] to its highly centralised administration which called for rulers of exceptional abilities to function well.

Thapar's first volume of ''A History of India'' is written for a popular audience and encompasses the period from its early history to the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century.

''Ancient Indian Social History'' deals with the period from early times to the end of the first millennium, includes a comparative study of Hindu and Buddhist socio-religious systems, and examines the role of Buddhism in social protest and social mobility in the caste system. ''From Lineage to State'' analyses the formation of states in the middle Ganga valley in the first millennium BCE, tracing the process to a change, driven by the use of iron and plough agriculture, from a pastoral and mobile lineage-based society to one of settled peasant holdings, accumulation and increased urbanisation.<ref>{{cite book | title = A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 | author = E. Sreedharan | publisher = Orient Longman | year = 2004 | isbn = 81-250-2657-6 | pages = 479–480 }}</ref>

==Views on revisionist historiography==
Thapar is critical of what she calls a "[[communalism (South Asia)|communal]] interpretation" of Indian history, in which events in the last thousand years are interpreted solely in terms of a notional continual conflict between monolithic [[Hindu]] and [[Muslim]] communities. Thapar says this communal history is "extremely selective" in choosing facts, "deliberately partisan" in interpretation and does not follow current methods of analysis using multiple, prioritised causes.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Rediff Interview/ Romila Thapar | publisher = Rediff | date = 4 February 1999 | url = http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/feb/04thapar.htm | access-date = 28 November 2006 | archive-date = 3 July 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070703123633/http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/feb/04thapar.htm | url-status = live }}</ref>

In 2002, the Indian coalition government led by the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) [[NCERT controversy|changed the school textbooks]] for social sciences and history, on the ground that certain passages offended the sensibilities of some religious and caste groups.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020428/spectrum/book6.htm|title=Critiques galore!|last=Chaudhry|first=D.R.|date=28 April 2002|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|access-date=7 April 2009|archive-date=14 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414171251/http://tribuneindia.com/2002/20020428/spectrum/book6.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hating Romila Thapar|url=http://old.himalmag.com/himal-feed/54/1827-hating-romila-thapar.html|access-date=3 September 2014|year=2003|archive-date=3 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903151046/http://old.himalmag.com/himal-feed/54/1827-hating-romila-thapar.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Romila Thapar, who was the author of the textbook on [[History of India|Ancient India]] for class VI, objected to the changes made without her permission that, for example, deleted passages on eating of beef in ancient times, and the formulation of the caste system. She questioned whether the changes were an, "attempt to replace mainstream history with a [[Hindutva]] version of history", with the view to use the resultant controversy as "election propaganda".<ref name="friends">{{cite book|editor=Mukherji, Mridula|editor2=Mukherji, Aditya|title=Communalisation of Education: The history textbook controversy|publisher=Delhi Historians' Group|year=2002|location=New Delhi|url=http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/textbook/NCERT_Delhi_Historians__Group.pdf|access-date=6 March 2009|archive-date=16 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916185737/http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/textbook/NCERT_Delhi_Historians__Group.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Propaganda as history won't sell|last=Thapar|first=Romila|date=9 December 2001|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]]}}</ref> Other historians and commentators, including [[Bipan Chandra]], [[Sumit Sarkar]], [[Irfan Habib]], [[Ram Sharan Sharma|R.S. Sharma]], [[Vir Sanghvi]], Dileep Padgaonkar and [[Amartya Sen]] also protested the changes and published their objections in a compilation titled, ''Communalisation of Education''.<ref name="friends" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=7979|title=Communalisation of Education: Fighting history's textbook war|date=28 January 2002|publisher=[[Indian Express]]|access-date=7 April 2009|archive-date=13 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513130545/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=7979|url-status=live}}</ref>

Writing about the 2006 [[Californian Hindu textbook controversy]], Thapar opposed some of the changes that were proposed by Hindu groups to the coverage of Hinduism and Indian history in school textbooks. She contended that while Hindus have a legitimate right to a fair and [[culturally sensitive]] representation, some of the proposed changes included material that pushed a political agenda.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20060228&fname=witzel&sid=1 | title = Creationism By Any Other Name ... | first = Romila | last = Thapar | publisher = Outlook | date = 28 February 2006 | access-date = 4 April 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080328233513/http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20060228&fname=witzel&sid=1 | archive-date = 28 March 2008 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

==Recognition and honours==
Thapar has been a visiting professor at [[Cornell University]], the [[University of Pennsylvania]], and the [[Collège de France|College de France]] in Paris. She was elected General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983 and a Corresponding Fellow of the [[British Academy]] in 1999.<ref name="visiting">{{cite web|url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/romila-thapar/18014/|title=Romila Thapar|work=penguin.co.uk|access-date=12 December 2014|archive-date=19 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219063544/http://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/romila-thapar/18014/|url-status=live}}</ref> She was elected a Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2019.

She was awarded the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship]] in 1976.<ref>{{cite web| title = Official list of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows (1969-present)| work = [[Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund]]| url = http://www.jnmf.in/flist.html| access-date = 25 July 2016| archive-date = 18 July 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160718075352/http://www.jnmf.in/flist.html| url-status = live}}</ref> Thapar is an Honorary Fellow at [[Lady Margaret Hall]], Oxford, and at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS), [[University of London]]. She holds honorary doctorates from the [[University of Chicago]], the [[Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales]] in Paris, the [[University of Oxford]], the University of Edinburgh (2004), the [[University of Calcutta]] (2002)<ref>[http://www.caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/university_frame.htm Honoris Causa] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808224127/http://www.caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/university_frame.htm |date=8 August 2011 }}</ref> and recently (in 2009) from the [[University of Hyderabad]].<ref name="kluge-announcement">{{cite web | url = https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-068.html | title = Romila Thapar Named as First Holder of the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at Library of Congress | publisher = Library of Congress | date = 17 April 2003 | access-date = 4 April 2007 | archive-date = 30 March 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070330183557/http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-068.html | url-status = live }}</ref> She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2009.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter T|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterT.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=21 June 2011|archive-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005192518/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterT.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> She was also elected an Honorary Fellow of [[St Antony's College, Oxford]], in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about/news/new-honorary-fellows | title=New Honorary Fellows | St Antony's College | access-date=19 June 2018 | archive-date=19 June 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619113442/http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about/news/new-honorary-fellows | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2004, the US [[Library of Congress]] appointed her as the first holder of the [[John W. Kluge Center|Kluge Chair]] in Countries and Cultures of the South.<ref name="kluge-announcement" />

In January 2005, she declined the [[Padma Bhushan]] awarded by the Indian Government. In a letter to [[President of India|President]] [[A P J Abdul Kalam]], she said she was "astonished to see her name in the list of awardees because three months ago when I was contacted by the HRD ministry and asked if I would accept an award, I made my position very clear and explained my reason for declining it". Thapar had declined the Padma Bhushan on an earlier occasion, in 1992. To the President, she explained the reason for turning down the award thus: "I only accept awards from academic institutions or those associated with my professional work, and not state awards".<ref name="padma">[https://web.archive.org/web/20121018024512/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-01-27/india/27864821_1_padma-award-padma-bhushan-hrd-ministry "Romila rejects Padma award"] – [[Times of India]] article dated 27 January 2005</ref>

She is co-winner with [[Peter Brown (historian)|Peter Brown]] of the [[Kluge Prize]] for the Study of Humanity for 2008 which comes with a {{USD}}1 million prize.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120202969.html|title=Historians Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Romila Thapar to Share 2008 Kluge Prize|work=washingtonpost.com|access-date=11 September 2017|archive-date=11 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111200456/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120202969.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Romila Thapar.jpg|thumb|Thapar on 23 June 2016]]

==Bibliography==

=== Books ===
* ''Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas'', 1961 (revision 1998); Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-564445-X}}
* ''A History of India: Volume 1'', 1966; Penguin, {{ISBN|0-14-013835-8}}
* ''Ancient India, Medieval India'', 1966, 1968 sq.; [[NCERT]] Textbooks<ref name=jnu />
* ''The Past and Prejudice ([[Sardar Patel]] Memorial Lectures)'', National Book Trust, 1975, {{ISBN|81-237-0639-1}}
* ''Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations'', 1978, Orient Blackswan, {{ISBN|978-81-250-0808-8}}
* ''Exile and the Kingdom: Some Thoughts on the Rāmāyana'', Rao Bahadur [[R. Narasimhachar]] Endowment lecture, 1978;<ref>{{cite book|title=Exile and the Kingdom: Some Thoughts on the Rāmāyana|oclc = 7135323}}</ref>
* ''Dissent in the Early Indian Tradition'', Volume 7 of [[M.N. Roy]] memorial lecture, 1979; Indian Renaissance Institute<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqE9AAAAMAAJ|website=Google Books|title=Dissent in the Early Indian Tradition|access-date=11 December 2014|last1=Thapar|first1=Romila|year=1979|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901063141/https://books.google.com/books?id=oqE9AAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganges Valley'', 1985; Oxford University Press (OUP), {{ISBN|978-0-19-561394-0}}
* ''The Mauryas Revisited'', [[Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar]] lectures on Indian history, 1987; K.P. Bagchi & Co., {{ISBN|978-81-7074-021-6}}
* ''Interpreting Early India'', 1992 (2nd edition 1999); Oxford University Press 1999, {{ISBN|0-19-563342-3}}
* ''Cultural Transaction and Early India: Tradition and Patronage'', Two Lectures, 1994; OUP, {{ISBN|978-0-19-563364-1}}
* ''Śakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories'', 2002; Anthem, {{ISBN|1-84331-026-0}}
* ''History and Beyond'', 2000; OUP, {{ISBN|978-0-19-566832-2}}
* ''Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History'', 2003; OUP, {{ISBN|0-19-566487-6}}
* ''Early India: From Origins to AD 1300'', 2002; Penguin, {{ISBN|0-520-23899-0}}
* ''Somanatha: The Many Voices of History'', 2005; Verso, {{ISBN|1-84467-020-1}}
* ''India: Historical Beginnings and the Concept of the Aryan'', Essays by Thapar, et al., 2006; National Book Trust, {{ISBN|978-81-237-4779-8}}
* ''The Aryan: Recasting Constructs'', Three Essays, 2008; Delhi, {{ISBN|978-81-88789-68-9}}
* ''The Past before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India'', 2013; Permanent Black, Harvard University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-674-72523-2}}
* ''The Past As Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History'', 2014; Aleph, {{ISBN|93-83064-01-3}}

=== Editor ===
* ''Communalism and the Writing of Indian History'', Romila Thapar, [[Harbans Mukhia]], [[Bipan Chandra]], 1969 People's Publishing House<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pKs9AAAAMAAJ|title=Communalism and the Writing of Indian History|access-date=11 December 2014|last1=Thapar|first1=Romila|last2=Mukhia|first2=Harbans|last3=Chandra|first3=Bipan|year=1969|isbn=9788170070641|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901063142/https://books.google.com/books?id=pKs9AAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''Situating Indian History: For Sarvepalli Gopal'', 1987; OUP, {{ISBN|978-0-19-561842-6}}
* ''Indian Tales'', 1991; Puffin, {{ISBN|0-14-034811-5}}
* ''India: Another Millennium?'' 2000; Viking, {{ISBN|978-0-14-029883-3}}

=== Select papers, articles and chapters ===

* "India before and after the Mauryan Empire", in ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology'', 1980; {{ISBN|978-0-517-53497-7}}
* "Imagined Religious Communities? Ancient History and the Modern Search for a Hindu Identity", Paper in ''Modern Asian Studies'' , 1989; {{doi|10.1017/S0026749X00001049}}
* {{Citation | last =Thapar | first =Romila | year =1996 | title =The Theory of Aryan Race and India: History and Politics | journal =Social Scientist | volume =24 | issue =1/3 | pages =3–29 | doi =10.2307/3520116| jstor =3520116 }}
* [http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?type=static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl1608/16081210.htm "Somanatha and Mahmud"] , Frontline, Volume 16 – Issue 8, 10–23 April 1999
* ''Perceiving the Forest: Early India'' , Paper in the journal, ''Studies in History'' , 2001; {{doi|10.1177/025764300101700101}}
* ''Role of the Army in the Exercise of Power'' , Essay in ''Army and Power in the Ancient World'' , 2002; Franz Steiner Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3-515-08197-9}}
* ''The Puranas: Heresy and the Vamsanucarita", Essay in '' Ancient to Modern: Religion, Power and Community in India'', 2009; OUP, {{ISBN|978-0-19-569662-2}}''
* ''Rāyā Asoko from Kanaganahalli: Some Thoughts'' , Essay in ''Airavati'' , Chennai, 2008;
* ''Was there Historical Writing in Early India?'' , Essay in ''Knowing India'' , 2011; Yoda Press, {{ISBN|978-93-80403-03-8}}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://depts.washington.edu/schkatz/podcasts/thapar_podcast.mp3 Audio of Romila Thapar's 2005 lecture, "Interpretations of Early Indian History"] at the [[Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities]]
* [http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/textbook/NCERT_Delhi_Historians__Group.pdf "Delhi Historians Group's Publication "''Communalization of Education: The History Textbooks Controversy''", A report in 2002, New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University, India]

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