Citation presented by Oxford University to Romila Thapar while conferring on her an honorary Doctorate of Letters, 2002. The distinguished scholar Eric Hobsbawm, author of a four-part history of ...

Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and ...