Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya

Ramin Jahanbegloo (Professor and Vice Dean and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University),Romila Thapar (Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University),Neeladri Bhattacharya (Professor, Centre for Hist orical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya
Format
Hardback
Publisher
OUP India
Country
India
Published
1 March 2017
Pages
368
ISBN
9780199474271

Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya

Ramin Jahanbegloo (Professor and Vice Dean and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University),Romila Thapar (Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University),Neeladri Bhattacharya (Professor, Centre for Hist orical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Talking History is the eighth title in the OUP series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s conversations with prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought. This volume excavates the life and career of Romila Thapar as a historian and a public intellectual. Her multifaceted work, from her early research on Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas to her classic studies on the lineage system in India, her questioning of the dominant paradigms of historians from both the colonial era and from the more recent nationalist era to the role of a public intellectual in India, have made her one of the most frequently read, discussed, and cited historians of our times. Across the six parts of the book, Jahanbegloo probes her to talk about some of the central issues of history writing in India, such as the function of a historian, conflict with Hindu fundamentalism, authority in historical research, oriental despotism, and the polymorphous structure of Hinduism, as also about her life.

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