Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In thi...

A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India''s cultural dynamics

This new book represents a complete rewriting of Romila Thapar's hugely successful HISTORY OF IND...

The 16 stories in this collection of Indian heroes and heroines, their adventures, misfortunes an...

The claim that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a ...

The figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in...

WINNER OF THE KLUGE PRIZE FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2008 Early India a complete rewrite of Romila ...

The claim, often made, that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distrac...

In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of th...

This book is a concise collection of lectures which discuss the nature of early Indian society du...

La importancia de este primer tomo (el segundo es de la autoria de Thomas George Spear) radica en...

In a series of candid conversations, Romila Thapar, a widely read, discussed, and cited historian...