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  • India another millennium

    by Romila Thapar ...
    In this collection of essays, edited by Romila Thapar, and accompanied by her introduction, fourteen of India’s foremost scholars and specialists in various fields explore the challenges that lie before twenty-first century India in its quest for a democratic and just society. Globalization and the IT revolution provide a new context to the problems faced by contemporary India. But will ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Speaking of History

    Conversations about India's Past and Present

    by Romila Thapar, Namit Arora ...
    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 curtain on the historian’s craft: how evidence is weighed, how interpretations are made, and why the past ... Read more

    $12.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin History of Early India

    From the Origins to AD 1300

    by Romila Thapar ...
    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 civilisation - a civilisation always based on diverse, often warring sources and that left the astounding ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations

    by Romila Thapar ...
    Drawing on textual and archaeological sources, most of the essays in this edition are on the early history of India upto the end of the first millennium A.D., suggesting some fresh interpretations of the data.This revised edition has four new essays. The tradition of historical writing that earlier received little attention is now becoming a subject of interest in relation to pre-modern India. The ... Read more

    $26.79 CAD

  • A History of India

    by Romila Thapar ...
    A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Past Before Us

    Historical Traditions of Early North India

    by Romila Thapar ...
    “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 consciousness of history embedded in classical Indian literature.The claim, often made, that India ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Our History, Their History, Whose History?

    by Romila Thapar ...
    Series series The India List
    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. History, she expounds, is no mere collection of information and chronology, and its purpose extends well ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Talking History

    Romila Thapar in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo, with the participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya

    by Romila Thapar, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Neeladri Bhattacharya ...
    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 exploring Thapar’s far-reaching influence as an authority on the history of early India, Talking History examines themes such as the function of a historian, the centrality of historical research and ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Sakuntala

    Texts, Readings, Histories

    by Romila Thapar ...
    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 assertiveness and autonomy to become the quintessentially submissive woman, revealing much about the performance ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • From Lineage to State

    Social Formations in the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley

    by Romila Thapar ...
    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 earliest forms. It also looks at the particular character of social formations, their genesis, and continuity as part of the later Indian social landscape. Examining the social and political formulations of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • AÅ›oka and the Decline of the Mauryas

    by Romila Thapar ...
    Series series Oxford India Perennials
    This classic provides a comprehensive account of the hstory of the Mauryas with a special emphasis on the reign and activities of Aśoka. It examines the sources, socio-economic conditions, administration, Dhamma, foreign relations, and the decline of the Mauryas. This edition comes with a new Pre-word which updates research on the subject. ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Idea of India

    A Dialogue

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Romila Thapar ...
    Series series History for Peace
    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 Spivak reflect on the challenges posed by essentialism and exclusion whenever cultures attempt to define ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD