Professor Romila Thapar, one of India’s finest historians, is in the news again — for refusing the Padma Bhushan. During the reign of the National Democratic Alliance government, she was in the news for a series of run-ins with the ideologues of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the largest party in the NDA coalition. The BJP [...]
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Romila Thapar speaks about Indian History
Posted in Romila Thapar, tagged Hindu, Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, Romial Thapar, RSS on February 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Environmental History : Interview with Romila Thapar
Posted in Romila Thapar, tagged Forestry, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, Romial Thapar, RSS on December 28, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Romila Thapar … “Historical writing is not a free-for-all in which anyone can claim to be writing history.”Professor Romila Thapar was recently in Chennai at the invitation of the Prakriti Foundation, known to bring to the city the best among scholars and artists for an enlightened audience. She gave two lectures at the Museum Theatre [...]
Historians shocked by Hindutva assault on Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Posted in Hindutva, tagged Bhandarkar, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, Maratha, Romial Thapar, RSS, Shivsena on January 6, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, 05 January , 2004, Pune: Internationally renowned Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) on Monday was vandalised and around 18,000 books and 30,000 rare manuscripts damaged by activists of the ‘Sambhaji Brigade’, a sister organisation of the Maratha Mahasangh. Around 150 activists reached the institute at around 1115 hrs protesting the ‘objectionable’ reference to Shivaji [...]
