
Romila Thapar is one of the most celebrated historian of India with specialization in Ancient India.
Awards and Recognition
- Ø First holder – Kluge Chair in Countries and Culture of South – U.S. Library of Congress (2004)
- Ø Padma Bhushan (She honourarily declined the award twice in 1992 and 2005 stating she only accepted academic awards or awards for her work and not state awards)
- Ø Kluge Prize for study in humanities (2008 along with Peter Brown)
- Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, 1978
- Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History, 2003; Oxford University Press
- Cultural Transaction and Early India: Tradition and Patronage1994 Art patronage
- Dissent in the Early Indian Tradition 1979 Indian Renaissance Institute
- Early India: From Origins to AD 1300, 2002; Penguin
- Exile and the Kingdom: Some Thoughts on the Rāmāyana 1978 Original from the University of California
- From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganges Valley, 1985; Oxford University Press (OUP)
- History and Beyond 2000 OUP
- Interpreting Early India, 1993 (2nd edition 1999); Oxford University Press 1999
- India: Another Millennium? 2000, Viking
- India: Historical Beginnings and the Concept of the Aryan 2006 National Book Trust
- Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories, 2002; Anthem
- Somanatha: The Many Voices of History, 2005; Verso
- The Past and Prejudice (Patel Memorial Lectures), 1971
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