Romila Thapar is an Indian historian. Her principal area of study is ancient India, a field in which she is pre-eminent. Thapar is a Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
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Secularism is the curtailment of religious control over social institutions, not the absence of religion from society.
As quoted in "Indian definition of secularism is incomplete, says Romila Thapar", The Indian Express August 20, 2015.
...most of the theories propagated by Romila Thapar are merely speculations riddled with factual errors.
A. Sharma, in Ten heads of ravana : a critique of hinduphobic scholars. (2023). Garuda Prakashan Private Limited.
Intolerance of the views of others and anti-intellectualism are on the rise.
interview in 2016, as quoted in "Why Right-wingers and lapsed liberals hate Romila Thapar, the mother of history in India", The Print, 21
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Sirindhorn, Princess RoyalAlso won honorary doctorate from INALCO
Kiran BediAlso won Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship
Roger GuilleminAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Chicago
Ethel SmythAlso won Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
Peter BrownAlso won Kluge Prize
Ramachandra GuhaAlso won Fukuoka Asian Culture PrizeAbout this person
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