History and Beyond: Interpreting Early India, Time as a Metaphor of History, Cultural Transaction and Early India and From Lineage to State

by Romila Thapar

This volume consists of four of Dr. A-Romila Thapar's published books on seemingly discrete and different aspects of early Indian history that are actually interconnected. They take up historical questions and delve into them from multiple perspectives in order to provide a glimpse of the
exploration of new historical territories relating to early India.

Genres: History, India

467 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Romila Thapar is an Indian historian and Professor Emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

A graduate from Panjab University, Dr. Thapar completed her PhD in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Her historical work portrays the origins of Hinduism as an evolving interplay between social forces. Her recent work on Somnath examines the evolution of the historiographies about the legendary Gujarat temple.

Thapar has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College de France in Paris. She was elected General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1999.

Reviews

[Anubha (BooksFullOfLife, LifeFullOfBooks) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay when you realize this is basically 4 books rolled into 1 🤦‍♀️
Also, her writing style is so difficult to comprehend by reading just once. Gotta re read it atleast twice to be fully fluent with her work

[Meem Arafat Manab · Rating 4 out of 5]

থাপার সেরা। শত রিপিটিশন সত্ত্বেও।

[Anusar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant work. Thapar is the most respected scholar of Indian History and rightly so. this is one of her most important works. Definitely worth reading. Americans should definitely read it to understand the complexity of the world outside their borders especially one so alien as India.