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Speaking of History
Namit Arora is a writer, social critic and the author of three books, including Indians and The Lottery of Birth. Trained in science and technology, he has spent over three decades educating himself in the humanities.
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Just Being
Historian Romila Thapar reflects on a rich, path-breaking life--and the ideas, friendships, and journeys that shaped her. In Just Being, historian Romila Thapar invites us into her illustrious world--a rich, extensive memoir from a scholar who has profoundly shaped our understanding of India's past and present. From her childhood growing up in British India, through her years of education in London, her extensive travels to archaeological sites across Asia and beyond, and her trailblazing role in shaping the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Thapar reflects on a life lived in the service of inquiry and education. Composed over the past few years, Just Being is a testimony to Thapar's ability to view herself within the larger flow of history, and to illumine it with a scholar's depth and a storyteller's sensitivity. It reveals not only an extraordinary, boundary-defying life but a profound conviction that understanding our past in the light of irrefutable evidence is essential to an insight into the present and to shaping a more thoughtful future.
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Gazing Eastwards
Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China€ 41,50 -
The Future in the Past
Essays and Reflections€ 41,50 -
On Citizenship
The essays in On Citizenship provide the reader with clear, informed, compelling insights into the vexed issue of citizenship in India today. The four writers featured in this book-Romila Thapar, N. Ram, Gautam Bhatia, and Gautam Patel-are all experts in their fields. It breaks down the history of citizenship, how it evolved during the Constituent Assembly debates, the nationwide CAA-NRC protests and makes a compelling case against the ruling dispensation.
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Indian Cultures as Heritage
One of India's preeminent historians examines the role of history in contemporary society. Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live and express themselves and how they value objects and thoughts. Recently, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes Indian culture and heritage and about how much diversity those categories ought to contain. Romila Thapar begins by explaining how definitions of culture have changed over the past three centuries. She suggests that cultures can be defined as a shared understanding of selected objects and thoughts from the past, but this understanding is often stripped of its historical context. Thapar touches on a few of these illuminating contexts, such as social discrimination, the role of women, and attitudes toward science and knowledge. This thought-provoking book is sure to spark productive debate about some current shibboleths in India's culture.
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Gazing Eastwards
In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The first site was the then lesser known Maijishan in north China, and the second was the famous site of Dunhuang on the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China. Now, decades later, she is supplementing the academic work that emerged from that trip with a captivating travelogue: Gazing Eastward takes readers back to midcentury China, through the observations that Thapar made in her diary during her time at the two archaeological sites and her trips there and to other sites. Traveling by train or truck, Thapar met people from throughout the country and all stations in society, from peasants on a cooperative farm to Chairman Mao himself. An enchanting document of a long-lost era, Gazing Eastward is a marvel, a richly observed work of travel writing that brings a time and a place fully to life.
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The Past as Present
Many popularly held views about the past need to be critically inquired into before they can be taken as historical. For instance, what was the aftermath of the raid on the Somanatha temple? Which of us is Aryan or Dravidian? Why is it important for Indian society to be secular? When did communalism as an ideology gain a foothold in the country? How and when did our patriarchal mindset begin to support a culture of violence against women? Why are the fundamentalists so keen to rewrite history textbooks?The answers to these and similar questions have been disputed and argued about ever since they were first posed. Distinguished historian Romila Thapar has investigated, analyzed and interpreted the history that underlies such questions throughout her career; now, in this book, through a series of incisive essays she argues that it is of critical importance for the past to be carefully and rigorously explained, if the legitimacy of our present, wherever it derives from the past, is to be portrayed as accurately as possible. This is especially pertinent given the attempts by unscrupulous politicians, religious fundamentalists and their ilk to try and misrepresent and willfully manipulate the past in order to serve their present-day agendas. An essential and necessary book at a time when sectarianism, bogus 'nationalism' and the muddying of historical facts are increasingly becoming a feature of our public, private and intellectual lives.
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Which of Us Are Aryans?
The question of which of us is Aryan is one of the most contentious in India today. In this eyeopeningbook, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history,genetics, early Vedic scriptures, archaeology and linguistics to test and challenge varioushypotheses, myths, facts and theories that are currently in vogue.Romila Thapar tackles the definition of the 'Aryan' in her inimitable style by tracing theorigins and progression of the 'Aryans' from old Iranian texts such as the Zend-Avesta,archaeological excavations and colonial interpretations made by Max Müeller. She alsotouches upon the following fields of enquiry: historiography, archaeology, linguistics,comparative mythology, social anthropology and, more recently, genetics. Michael Witzelinvestigates the origins of the early 'Aryans' within and outside India. Jaya Menon examinesdata from excavations of Harappan culture. Kai Friese lucidly explains the Rakhigarhiresearch which has been talked about a lot in the recent past and Razib Khan providesinsights arising from research into genetics.
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The Past as Present
Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between the past and present or an exacting understanding of the past, call for careful analyses. Understanding India's past is of vital importance to the present. Many popularly held views about the past need to be critically enquired into before they can be taken as historical. Why is it important for Indian society to be secular? When did communalism as an ideology gain a foothold in the country? How and when did the patriarchal system begin to support a culture of violence against women? Historian Romila Thapar has investigated, analyzed, and interpreted the history that underlies such questions throughout her career. Through the incisive essays in The Past as Present, she argues that it is of critical importance for the Indian past to be carefully and rigorously explained if the legitimacy of the present, wherever it derives from the past, is to be portrayed as accurately as possible. This is particularly crucial given the attempts by unscrupulous politicians, religious fundamentalists, and their ilk to wilfully misrepresent and manipulate the past in order to serve their present-day agendas. The Past as Present is an essential and necessary book at a time when sectarianism, false nationalism, and the muddying of historical facts are increasingly becoming a feature of our public, private, and intellectual lives.
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On Nationalism
What is true nationalism? What is pseudo-nationalism? What is anti-national? What is patriotism? Is the shouting of nationalist slogans important to prove one's patriotism? Why is Bharat Mata ki Jai so important to the right wing? Why does the law of sedition continue to exist on the statute book of an independent country? Who should the sedition law be used against? Why is cultural freedom important to a nation? What sort of India do we want? What sort of Indians do we want to be? What sort of
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Indian Cultures as Heritage
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€ 42,00