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Syndicated Hinduism

This essay has been extracted from The Historian and her Craft Collected Essays and Lectures of Romila Thapar recently published by the Oxford University Press and republished here with permission.Image courtesy...

To Question or Not to Question? That is the Question

  Deciding on a topic for this lecture has been problematic. As has been rightly said Nikhil Chakravarti was a man of many parts. He...

Why rulers patronised and pillaged others’ religious places.

Prof. Romila Thapar  Prof. Romila Thapar Ancient India Within colonial historiography, we have two distinct trends- the Orientalists and the Utilitarians. The first presented a sympathetic image of a Golden...

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