TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thapar,Romila
AU  - Jahanbegloo,Ramin
AU  - Bhattacharya,Neeladri
TI  - Talking history 
SN  - 9780199474271
AV  - DS435 .T483 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Delhi, India
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Thapar, Romila
KW  - Bhattacharya, Neeladri
KW  - Historians
KW  - India
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Literature and history
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Includes index
N2  - Talking History is the eighth title in the OUP series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's conversations with prominent intellectuals who have influenced modern Indian thought. This volume excavates the life and career of Romila Thapar as a historian and a public intellectual. Her multifaceted work, from her early research on Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas to her classic studies on the lineage system in India, her questioning of the dominant paradigms of historians from both the colonial era and from the more recent nationalist era to the role of a public intellectual in India, have made her one of the most frequently read, discussed, and cited historians of our times. Across the six parts of the book, Jahanbegloo probes her to talk about some of the central issues of history writing in India, such as the function of a historian, conflict with Hindu fundamentalism, authority in historical research, oriental despotism, and the polymorphous structure of Hinduism, as also about her life. --
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