According to Witzels characterizations, Inden and Bottomore would also be "Right Wing Hindu Fundamentalists". Her historical work portrays the origins of Hinduism as an evolving interplay between social forces. There is an amusing description of the pupils in one of the hymns. Die Marginalisierung von Minderheiten wie Christen, Parsen, Sikhs und Muslimen würde somit historisch legitimiert.

After graduating from Panjab University in English literature, Thapar obtained a second bachelor's honors degree and a doctorate in Indian history under A. L. Basham from the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London in 1958. Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud, http://www.springerlink.com/content/jk216x2499w12730/, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=333711, http://indiafacts.org/defining-urban-naxal-a-tribute-to-prof-romila-thapar, https://web.archive.org/web/20100924231411/http://bharatvani.org/indology.html, Romila Thapars Ancient India, A Textbook of History for Middle Schools.
"The insistence on the tradition of religious tolerance and non-violence as characteristic of Hinduism... is not borne out by historical evidence". From Lineage to State analyses the formation of states in the middle Ganga valley in the first millennium BC, tracing the process to a change, driven by the use of iron and plough agriculture, from a pastoral and mobile lineage-based society to one of settled peasant holdings, accumulation and increased urbanisation.[7]. (2006)). Muhammed (about her role in the Ayodhya debate), Diluting the record of Islam – Dilip Kumar Charkrabarti. Also her standing and influence has been largely due to her family relationship to the Nehru Gandhi family[11]. Though she was already well-known, her hour of glory came with the unnecessary and artificial Ayodhya controversy. [14], She is co-winner with Peter Brown of the Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity for 2008 which comes with a US$1 million prize. at the University. [24] A number of academics sent a protest letter[25][26] to the Library of Congress denouncing the petition as an attack on intellectual and artistic freedom.
"There is in reality no such thing as Hinduism". And in early 2003, while they were unchaining all their devils against glasnost , the Marxists ruling West Bengal deleted from a textbook a passage in which Mahatma Gandhi's biographer Louis Fischer called Stalin “at least as ruthless as Hitler”. [2] As a child, she attended schools in various cities in India depending on her father's military postings. Appointment of Professor Romila Thapar to the Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Her zodiac sign is Saggitarius. Elst 2003,ch2. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

"Taliban did not destroy the statue of Buddha at all. She attributes the decline of the Maurya Empire to its highly centralised administration which called for rulers of exceptional abilities to function well. Attack on Romila Thapar", "Communalisation of Education: Fighting history's textbook war", https://en.dharmapedia.net/w/index.php?title=Romila_Thapar&oldid=35458, Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Thapar and Sharma are quoted as representatives of Indian Marxism in Tom Bottomore’s History of Marxist Thought, Oxford 1988, entry “Hinduism”; Habib has subtitled his recent book Essays in Indian History (Tulika, Delhi 1995) as Towards a Marxist Perception. In 2008, the US Library of Congress named Thapar a co-winner, with Peter Brown, of the Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity [1] In 1992, and again in 2005, she was awarded the Republic of India's third-highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, but she declined each time, citing her decision to accept only academic honours awarded for her work. And with such a death toll as a result. [9] Thapar is an Honorary Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. ✪ “Shaping Identity: Nationalism, Secularism and Democracy” by Romila Thapar, ✪ "The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India. There was no historical evidence to prove that those statues were of Buddha". [3], She was a reader in Ancient Indian History at Kurukshetra University in 1961 and 1962 and held the same position at Delhi University between 1963 and 1970. [16] Martha Nussbaum has stated that Thapar is neither a communist nor a Marxist historian and the Library of Congress treated the petition with "the indifference that it deserved". One high profile critic of Thapar is journalist, politician, and writer Arun Shourie, whose book Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud accuses her and other historians of white-washing the records of Muslim rulers such as Mahmud of Ghazni and Aurangzeb and of tampering with history. It is not often in history that the intervention of intellectuals has had so much effect at the mass level.... Why, in fact, has Romila Thapar been interviewed? Elle est la fondatrice de l’archéologie indienne et a introduit le point de vue du positivisme. A subsequent sentence clarified what they meant; they had in mind the “Buddhist and Jain monuments” and “animist shrines destroyed by Hindus”. They had said that “acts of intolerance have been committed by followers of all religions”. In India, Marxist historiography was very influential. The same group of editors are usually the very ones who add the grossest misrepresentations and smears to articles of Hindus.

[22], Thapar's appointment to the Library of Congress's Kluge Chair in 2003 was opposed in an online petition bearing more than 2,000 signatures, on the grounds that she was a "Marxist and anti-Hindu" and that it was a "waste of US money" to support a leftist. Ronald INDEN, in his Imagining India [1990:pp. [3], Romila Thapar and R.S. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) supported her appointment by calling her "a liberal with a scientific outlook". "Jadunath Sarkar, R.C. Romila Thapar☭(रोमिला थापर) (born 30 November 1931) is an Indian Marxist historian. On August 2, 2002, Rajiv Malhotra left a message on the Sulekha.com forum revealing that a Sanskrit department was finally started at JNU by Dr Kapil Kapoor after several years of opposition from entrenched Marxists on the campus, who regarded Sanskrit as the language of ‘evil Brahmins’, and warned Kapoor of academic marginalization if he persisted with his lobbying for a Sanskrit Dept. QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE MARXIST PROFESSORS in Goel, S.R. Thapar is quoted as one of the marxist historians in the entry "Hinduism" of a "A Dictionary of The Marxist Thought"(Tom Bottomore et al, 1983, Harvard Univeristy Press, p.204) "Hinduism was invented during the nineteenth century as a response to British colonial rule". This petition was dismissed by the Supreme court and the custody of the accused was extended[9]. She completed her intermediate schooling from Nowrosjee Wadia College in Pune. [12] Journalist Praful Bidwai criticised the petition as a "vicious attack" by communalists who are "not even minimally acquainted" with her work. In 2006, she was an active supporter of Michael Witzel of Harvard in the Californian Hindu textbook controversy. Next, we refer to the second point which the professors had made in their letter to The Times of India. But no, the “eminent historians” preferred lies and bloodshed (and apparently also the rise of the BJP). Ronald INDEN, in his Imagining India [1990:pp. One of the recent textbook innovations most furiously denounced as “saffronization” was the truism that Lenin's armed seizing of power in October/November 1917 was a “coup d'état”. She contended that while Hindus have a legitimate right to a fair and culturally sensitive representation, some of the proposed changes included material that pushed political agenda.[24]. by Sanjay Garg. [18], In 2002, the Indian coalition government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) changed the school textbooks for social sciences and history, on the ground that certain passages offended the sensibilities of some religious and caste groups. by Koenraad Elst, India - Another Millennium? “…Young boys stayed with the priests who taught them how to recite the hymns of the Vedas.

Sharma, Vir Sanghvi, Dileep Padgaonkar and Amartya Sen also protested the changes and published their objections in a compilation titled, Communalisation of Education. 2) Daud Ali's review of A History of India: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=333711 interprets many of Thapar's views/ works as Marxist. Majumdar and K.S. She is in an excellent position, for instance, to create the much-needed dialogue between the different schools and disciplines in East and West; to stop the stonewalling, the guilt-by-association and the ridiculing that obstruct or poison the debate. But we agree to use their terms for the time being and request them to produce. [13] A number of academics sent a protest letter[14][15] to the Library of Congress denouncing the petition as an attack on intellectual and artistic freedom. [29][30] In 2019, Thapar declined a request for her CV, made by the academic council committee at the Jawaharlal Nehru University to assess her status as Professor Emerita. Romila Thapar is the recipient of Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of India. 154-156, 197] clearly refers to Thapar as a Marxist historian. Dr Kapoor was promised rewards such as ‘foreign trips’ if he gave up his support for Sanskrit and restricted himself to teaching of English at JNU. Romila Thapar (born 30 No­vem­ber 1931) is an In­dian his­to­rian whose prin­ci­pal area of study is an­cient India. Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, John W Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity, "Historians Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Romila Thapar to Share 2008 Kluge Prize", "Why is Karan Thapar complaining? But in that controversy, she was on the wrong side. ", ✪ Our Shared Cultural Heritage"History as Heritage" Prof. Romila Thapar, ✪ Prof. Romila Thapar deeply concerned about the future of JNU under the present administration, ✪ Romila Thapar and Gopal Guru Discussion Session. Her major claim to fame is now as the historian who was proven wrong, and this in a self-created controversy. [13], In 2004, the US Library of Congress appointed her as the first holder of the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South. 'A Dictionary of The Marxist Thought' (Tom Bottomore et al, 1983, Harvard University Press, p. 204, entry "Hinduism").

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