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PhD Ancient Indian History SOAS University of London

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According to Wikipedia, Romila Thapar is an Indian historian. Her principal area of study is ancient India, a field in which she is pre-eminent. Thapar is a Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

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A History of India (1966) (633)
Early India : from the origins to AD 1300 (2002) (219)
Imagined Religious Communities? Ancient History and the Modern Search for a Hindu Identity (1989) (197)
Aśoka and the decline of the Mauryas (1963) (197)
Interpreting early India (1993) (67)
From Lineage to State: Social Formations in the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley (1999) (65)
Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations (2010) (54)
The Theory of Aryan Race and India: History and Politics* (1996) (51)
Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History (2003) (39)
Time As a Metaphor of History: Early India (1996) (38)
The Image of the Barbarian in Early India (1971) (36)
Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History (2000) (32)
IN MODERN INDIA (2006) (31)
Ancient Indian social history (1978) (31)
The Past As Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History (2014) (30)
Sacrifice, Surplus, and the Soul (1994) (29)
Magic, Reason and Experience (1980) (28)
Communalism and the writing of Indian history (1977) (27)
The History Debate and School Textbooks in India: A Personal Memoir (2009) (27)
Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History (1998) (26)
A Possible Identification of Meluhha, Dilmun and Makan*) (1975) (19)
Communalism and the Historical Legacy: Some Facets (1990) (19)
History and Beyond (2000) (17)
Interpretations of Ancient Indian History (1968) (16)
The past and prejudice (1973) (16)
The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India (2013) (15)
ASOKA AND BUDDHISM (1960) (15)
Perceiving the Forest: Early India (2001) (15)
Tradition, dissent and ideology : essays in honour of Romila Thapar (2001) (15)
The Tyranny of Labels (1996) (15)
The householder and the renouncer in the Brahmanical and Buddhist traditions (1981) (15)
Human Ecology in India Some Historical Perspectives (1990) (13)
The History of India, Vol. 2 (1966) (13)
Cultural transaction and early India : tradition and patronage (1987) (13)
Secularism, History, and Contemporary Politics in India (2020) (12)
India another millennium (2000) (10)
The Mauryas revisited (1987) (10)
Ideology and the interpretation of early Indian history (1981) (10)
The Mauryan empire in early India (2006) (10)
The Political Abuse of History: Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhumi Dispute (1990) (10)
Cyclic and Linear Time in Early India1 (2005) (10)
Black gold: South Asia and the roman maritime trade (1992) (9)
Śakuntalā : texts, readings, histories (1999) (8)
Dissent and Protest in the Early Indian Tradition (1981) (8)
Chota Nagpur: The pre-colonial and colonial situation (2003) (7)
The Public Intellectual in India (2015) (7)
Politics and the rewriting of history in India (2005) (6)
Narratives and the Making of History: Two Lectures (1999) (6)
Time: Cyclic and Linear Time in Early India (2002) (6)
War in the Mahabharata (2009) (6)
Can genetics help us understand Indian social history? (2014) (5)
Genealogical Patterns as Perceptions of the Past (1991) (5)
21. The state as empire (1981) (5)
Early Indian history and the legacy of DD Kosambi (2011) (5)
India: historical beginnings and the concept of the Aryan (2006) (4)
Is secularism alien to Indian civilization ? 1 (2010) (4)
The Vedas, Hinduism, Hindutva (2005) (4)
Revisiting Abhijñānaśākuntalam : love, lineage and language in Kālidāsa's nāṭaka (2011) (4)
From the seventh century BC to the seventh century AD (1996) (3)
Situating Indian history for Sarvepalli Gopal (1988) (3)
To Question or Not to Question? That Is the Question (2020) (3)
The Aryan: Recasting Constructs (2008) (3)
Historical Traditions in Early India (2011) (2)
Clan, caste and origin myths in early India (1992) (2)
Readings in Early Indian History (2013) (2)
Boundaries, Dynamics And Construction Of Traditions In South Asia: Creating Traditions through Narration. The Case of Śakuntalā (2011) (2)
Exile and the kingdom : some thoughts on the Rāmāyana (1978) (2)
Renunciation, dissent, and satyagraha (2021) (1)
Reading history from inscriptions (2002) (1)
Selecting identities from the past (2006) (1)
7 Early Inscriptions as Historical Statements (Up to c. the Sixth Century ad) (2013) (1)
Society and Economic Activity (2012) (1)
Banning Books (2014) (1)
Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas: With a new afterword, bibliography and index (1998) (1)
Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India (2011) (1)
Talking History: Romila Thapar in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo, with the participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya (2017) (1)
The mouse in the ancestry (2021) (1)
Why India's “national culture” is both Hindu and Muslim – South Asia Citizens Web (2019) (0)
4 The Mahābhārata (2013) (0)
Time and the Decline of Dharma (1996) (0)
The Transition to State (1991) (0)
The Search for a Historical Tradition--Early India (1996) (0)
1 Searching for Early Indian Historical Writing (2013) (0)
Religion and the Social Order (1987) (0)
Book Reviews : N. N. Bhattacharya, Ancient Indian Rituals and their Social Contexts, Manohar Book Service, Delhi, 1975, Pp. xi+184, Rs 40 (1976) (0)
Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas@@@Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas (1962) (0)
Interpretations of Indian History (2016) (0)
2 Towards Historical Traditions (2013) (0)
Sangha, State and Economic Interests (1981) (0)
Book Reviews : Pratipat Bhatia, The Paramaras, Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1970, pp. xviii+443, Rs. 45 (1972) (0)
The Quest of Dharmanand (2010) (0)
Book Reviews : U. N. Ghoshal. A History of Indian Public Life. (Vol. Two). Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1966 pp. xx + 308 (1966) (0)
From Panjab to London (2017) (0)
The Policy of Dhamma (2012) (0)
The Decline of the Mauryas (2012) (0)
Response to the Review of Exotic Aliens from Romila Thapar, Yusuf Ansari, and Valmik Thapar (2013) (0)
The Background and the Source (2012) (0)
8 History as Literature: The Plays of Viśākhadatta (2013) (0)
Indian Society and the Secular: Public Lecture in Memory of Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer (2015) (0)
6 Genealogies in the Making of a Historical Tradition: The Vaṃśānucarita of the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (2013) (0)
10 The Monastic Chronicles of Sri Lanka (2013) (0)
Brij Narain Sharma: Social life in northern Inida (A.D. 600–1000) . xix. 390 pp. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1966. Rs.25. (1969) (0)
Early Life, Accession, and Chronology of the Reign of Aśoka (2012) (0)
Modern Writing of Early Indian History (2017) (0)
14 Inscriptions as Official Histories—and the Voice of the Bard (2013) (0)
Internal Administration and Foreign Relations (2012) (0)
5 The Rāmāyaṇa (2013) (0)
9 The Buddhist Tradition: Monks as Historians (2013) (0)
SWAPO in Namibia (2009) (0)
CHAPTER VIII COMMUNALISATION OF KERALA SOCIETY (2018) (0)
A Response to Professor A.M. Shah (1986) (0)
The Later Mauryas (2012) (0)
17 The Prabandha-cintāmaṇi (2013) (0)
The Legend of King Aśoka: A Study and Translation of the Aśokāvadāna . By John S. Strong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. xii, 336 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $28.50. (1985) (0)
Historical Consciousness and Historical Traditions in Early North India (2013) (0)
Bharatbarser Itihas 1000-1526 (1960) (0)
Book review: Arie L. Molendijk, Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East (2019) (0)
De-Intellectualisation of Education – South Asia Citizens Web (2018) (0)
The status of women in the epics. By Shakambari Jayal. pp. xvi, 335. Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1966. Rs. 25. (1968) (0)
History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India (2014) (0)
The Impact of Trade c. 100 B.C. - 300 A.D. in India (1966) (0)
Pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India (2018) (0)
The Function of the Historian (2017) (0)
The Historian and the Epic (2017) (0)
Some thoughts on university education (2021) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1987) (0)
India: Fallacies of Hindutva Historiography – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
Lay/clerical distinctions in early India (2020) (0)
The historian and her craft (2018) (0)
Book Reviews : UMA CHAKRAVARTI, The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987 (1989) (0)
16 The Chamba Vaṃśāvalī (2013) (0)
3 Fragmentary Narratives from the Vedas (2013) (0)
12 Historical Biographies: The Harṣacarita and the Rāmacarita (2013) (0)
11 Buddhist Biographies (2013) (0)
Of histories and identities - 11th Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture – South Asia Citizens Web (2019) (0)
18 Therefore Looking Back and Looking Forward (2013) (0)
Shakuntala and Somanatha (2017) (0)
India: The real reasons for hurt sentiments – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
Hope of a Fresh Initiative (2010) (0)
Interpretations of Indian History: Romila Thapar in conversation with Kunal Chakrabarti and Geeti Sen (2016) (0)
Variants As Historical Statements : The Rama-katha in Early India (2009) (0)
Ideology and the State (1991) (0)
The Anthropologist and the Native: Variants as Historical Statements: The Rāma-kathā in Early India (2011) (0)
Statement on Ayodhya Verdict (2010) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1990) (0)
The Dravidian Hypothesis for the Identification of Meluhha, Dilmun and Makan (1983) (0)
Book Review: Aruna Pariti, Genealogy, Time and Identity (2017) (0)
Statement of protest (2011) (0)
Why can't an Academic deliver a Lecture on Secularism without Police Protection? - Romila Thapar (2015) (0)
13 Biographies as Histories (2013) (0)
Shaping Identities of the Young (2021) (0)
Revenue system in post-Maurya and Gupta times . By Dwijendra Narayan Jha. pp. xv, 234. Calcutta, Punthi Pustak, 1967. Rs. 25. (1968) (0)
PART III Interlude: The Emerging Historical Tradition (2013) (0)
Humanism in the Era of Globalization: Some Thoughts (2009) (0)
India: Society in India: Continuity and Change. 2 vols. By David G. Mandelbaum. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1970. xi, 323p. $3.25 (1971) (0)
Migrants in the Creation of Cultures (2021) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1991) (0)
Book Reviews (1969) (0)
Selected writings on communalism (1994) (0)
Perceiving the Forest: Early India 1 (2015) (0)
Romila Thapar with Kumkum Roy and Rakesh Batal (2018) (0)
Revisiting Max Weber's Religion of India (2022) (0)
Review and Notices India (1965) (0)
Sakuntala from the Perspective of Middle Class Nationalism (2018) (0)
Myth and History (1996) (0)
The Eighteenth Century in India: Its Economy and the Role of the Marathas, the Jats, the Sikhs and the Afghans@@@Three Views of Europe from Nineteenth Century Bengal@@@The Mauryas Revisited (1994) (0)
Clearing the Mists of Antiquity (1975) (0)
15 Vaṃśāvalīs Chronicles of Place and Person—The Rājataraṅgiṇī (2013) (0)
Lineage and Kingship (2017) (0)
Book Reviews : JOACHIM DEPPERT ed., India and the West (South Asian Studies No. XV), New Delhi, 1983 (1986) (0)

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