Romila Thapar
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Romila Thapar
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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. Thapar's special contribution is the use of social-historical methods to understand change in the mid-first millennium BCE in northern India. As lineage-based Indo-Aryan pastoral groups moved into the Gangetic Plain, they created rudimentary forms of caste-based states. The epics Ra
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Indian historian (born 1931)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romila_Thapar
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2005-01-14T04:35:55Z
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2024-09-13T17:22:58Z
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