Romila Thapar is Emeritus professor of History at JNU and a leading historian. A fellow of the British Academy, she received the 2008 Kluge Prize. She has authored over 25 influential books on ancient Indian history and historical analysis.
Namit Arora and Romila Thapar on how identities in early and medieval India were formed, contested, and why a shared sense of “Indianness” may be a colonial-era development
Moving beyond the colonial-era understanding of the history of the Subcontinent gives us a whole new way of looking at the Subcontinent´s past. This now includes not just the usual explorations of politics and economy, but also of social, cultural and religious issues - as well as the writing of his
