History is an unending dialogue between past and present -Watch Romila Thapar at KLF 2018 talks about the contradiction between religious non violence and political violence, the circumstances of marginalized group and women, the bridge between ancient India and Modern India.
Her historical work portrays the origins of Hinduism as an evolving interplay between social forces.[3] Her recent work on Somnath examines the evolution of the historiographies about the legendary Gujarat temple. 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. She was awarded the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship in 1976. Thapar is an Honorary Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, the University of Oxford, the University of Edinburgh (2004), the University of Calcutta (2002) and recently (in 2009) from the University of Hyderabad. She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. She is co-winner with Peter Brown of the prestigious Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity for 2008 which comes with a US$1 million prize.
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