Overview

Full Product Details

9780857426444

Table of Contents

Reviews

Thapar ranks among the great historians of her generation. . . . What has always been regarded as Thapar's stellar capacity for systematic analysis, rigorous scholarship and inspired insight has now been distilled into wisdom--the wisdom that can only come from a great scholar who remains engaged with her subject and has a political position from which she apprehends the world. --Livemint The Past as Present presents a fabulous overview of a half a century's work by one of India's most eminent historians, running from ancient India to the charged debates over Indian identity that erupted in the 1980s. --The Hindu

Author Information

Romila Thapar is emeritus professor of history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been general president of the Indian History Congress. She is a fellow of the British Academy and holds an Hon D.Lit. from Calcutta University, Oxford University and the University of Chicago. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and SOAS, London. In 2008 she was awarded the prestigious Kluge Prize of the Library of Congress.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available