The Historian and her Craft: Collected Essays and Lectures (4 volume set)

Professor Romila Thapar (Emerita Professor, Emerita Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

The Historian and her Craft: Collected Essays and Lectures (4 volume set)
Format
Hardback
Publisher
OUP India
Country
India
Published
30 December 2017
Pages
1580
ISBN
9780199467150

The Historian and her Craft: Collected Essays and Lectures (4 volume set)

Professor Romila Thapar (Emerita Professor, Emerita Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

This is a set of four volumes aimed at bringing together the best research by Romila Thapar to showcase her academic contributions to the understanding of history and historiography in India. The four volumes will focus on bringing together all the lectures and papers on an area of her work-historiography, Mauryas and Mauryan India, Social and Cultural Transaction, and Religion and Society. Each volume also includes a detailed interview with the author and a reflection on her work by an expert in the field, who will introduce the essays in that volume.The introduction to the set by Romila Thapar will explore her academic life and approaches to early Indian history and history writing. It will incorporate a detailed analysis of all the trends and transformations in historical thinking and history writing that have shaped the last six decades of Indian history.The set of volumes would conserve and reflect on the life and work of an eminent historian of India.

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