The Communist Party of India (Marxist) supported her appointment by calling her "a liberal with a scientific outlook". 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 a political agenda. Romila was born into a Punjabi Family to Daya Ram Thapar who had served as the Director General of the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services. 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. [For PDF version, click here] by Vishal Agarwal, Review of "Medieval India", Class VII NCERT History Textbook by M. Pramod Kumar, A Review of Romila Thapar's Early India (2002, 2003) ; [MS-WORD ; PDF ] by Kalavai Venkat, Review of Romila Thapar's Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History(Penguin 2004), by Meenakshi Jain, The autobiography of K.K. I am sorry to say that your pamphlet has added nothing to my knowledge or perspective. Thapar, Jha and Sharma are quoted Marxist historians in the entry 'Hinduism' of 'A Dictionary of The Marxist Thought' (Tom BOTTOMORE et al, 1983, Harvard University Press, p. 204). "There is in reality no such thing as Hinduism". There is an amusing description of the pupils in one of the hymns. 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”. We have created a browser extension. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Miss Thapar is the Professor Emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. Romila Thapar is the recipient of Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of India. She did BA in Literature from Panjab University in Chandigarh and attended the Miranda House in the University of … The BMAC team’s argumentation of 1991 and several other anti-temple pamphlets were published by the People’s Publishing House, a Communist Party outfit. I wish you had refrained from striking the pose of superiority which has been for long the hallmark of your school of historians. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. 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”. Thapar's first volume of A History of India is written for a popular audience and encompasses the period from its early history to the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century. They had said that “acts of intolerance have been committed by followers of all religions”. After the 1989 statement by the JNU historians, starring Romila Thapar, the historical position, though having been a matter of consensus between all the parties involved, was suddenly tabooed. 'A Dictionary of The Marxist Thought' (Tom Bottomore et al, 1983, Harvard University Press, p. 204, entry "Hinduism"). [32] She later wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, titled They Peddle Myths and Call it History, describing the attempts of the governing party in rewriting Indian history to justify Hindu nationalist ideology, with actions such as deleting chapters or passages from public school textbooks that contradict their ideology.[33]. And while they were unchaining all their devils against glasnost, in early 2003, 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”. Muhammed (about her role in the Ayodhya debate), Diluting the record of Islam – Dilip Kumar Charkrabarti. 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. 1983. Elst 2003,ch2. Après avoir étudié à l’Université de Panjab, elle a obtenu un doctorat de l' École des études orientales et africaines de l' université de Londres. 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]. Later she attended intermediate of arts at Wadia College, Pune. Elst, K. Interview about Romila Thapar, 2015, “When RomilaThapar tries to make gullible readers believe that Mahmud Ghaznavi only desecrated temples for their wealth, she must know… that Mahmud is revered by the Muslims as a devout Muslim, that he calligraphed Quran text “for the benefit of his soul”, and that he actually refused a huge ransom which Hindus were ready to pay if he agreed to give back an idol, instead of breaking it. [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. Vous pouvez partager vos connaissances en l’améliorant (comment ?) Ronald INDEN, in his Imagining India [1990:pp. Romila Thapar (born 30 No­vem­ber 1931) is an In­dian his­to­rian whose prin­ci­pal area of study is an­cient India. Her historical work portrays the origins of Hinduism as an evolving interplay between social forces. The wrong side, though absolutely dominant for more than a decade, was proven wrong. 154-156, 197] clearly refers to Thapar as a Marxist historian. Her zodiac sign is Saggitarius. Also her standing and influence has been largely due to her family relationship to the Nehru Gandhi family[11]. In India, Marxist historiography was very influential. Such are the true concerns of the “secularists” warning the world against the attempts at glasnost in India's national history curriculum. She has made similar remarks in taped interviews to scholars such as Yvette Rosser. These kind of hypocrasy lends credence to her being called biased. Notable journalists such as Arun Shourie have covered this. 4.Ravi Shanker Kapoor refers to thapar as a "Leftist Historian" in his book " More Equal than Others - A study of the Indian Left, Vision Books: New Delhi (2000), Romila Thapar supported the idea of Uniform Civil Code in India.[6][7][8].

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