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Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
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To describe Romila Thapar, I would like to employ (with slight variation) an unknown quote by a famous journalist for Indira Gandhi, "She is the only MAN among the Indian intellectuals"
Early India is one of the best books I have read this year. Romila Thapar is among handful of Indian intellectuals who have the courage to stand up against the cultural distortion of our history. She is not famous among Hindutava circle because her work stands between their ambition to distort the past and depress the present with religious flavor.
In future, when there will be a debate with misogynistic men about the self-evident fact that female writers can not only produce first-rate fictional and emotional writings but also illuminate serious historical writings by their multidisciplinary approach. Great and brave work produced by Hannah Arendt, Rosa Luxemburg, Arundhati Roy and Romila Thapar will effortlessly champion the cause.
Early India is one of the best books I have read this year. Romila Thapar is among handful of Indian intellectuals who have the courage to stand up against the cultural distortion of our history. She is not famous among Hindutava circle because her work stands between their ambition to distort the past and depress the present with religious flavor.
In future, when there will be a debate with misogynistic men about the self-evident fact that female writers can not only produce first-rate fictional and emotional writings but also illuminate serious historical writings by their multidisciplinary approach. Great and brave work produced by Hannah Arendt, Rosa Luxemburg, Arundhati Roy and Romila Thapar will effortlessly champion the cause.
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Aastha Shyam
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Nov 17, 2019 08:37AM
it ia a nic book, it truely tell bout the indian rich heritage and culture.
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It may be that she is the only man among the intellectuals but I doubt about you. She is a woman who believes in authoritarian views. She tries to establish a hegemony on the historical issues. And a person who act like this can never be a good historian. She is a puppet of Nehru Gandhi family.
