Professor Romila Thapar on Democracy Dialogues, Sunday December 19, at 6 PM IST

 

Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series ( Webinar)
Organised by New Socialist Initiative

13th Lecture

Topic:  'Voices of Dissent in Pre-Modern and Present Times'

Speaker: Prof Romila Thapar

Date and Time:  19 th December 2021 at 6 PM (IST).

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We are very pleased to inform that Prof Romila Thapar, Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, JNU, author of many books and a leading public intellectuals of India has kindly agreed to deliver a lecture in the Democracy Dialogues Series organized by New Socialist Initiative

This 13th Lecture in the Democracy Dialogues Series will be held online on Sunday 19th December 2021 at 6 PM (IST).

Prof Thapar would be speaking on  'Voices of Dissent in Pre-Modern and Present Times'

 Internationally renowned scholar of Ancient History, Prof Thapar was elected General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1999. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Kluge Prize of the US Library of Congress which complements the Nobel, in honouring lifetime achievement in disciplines not covered by the latter.  

Thapar has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Pennysylvania, and the College de France  in Paris and 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 and from the University of Hyderabad

  Here is a select list of Prof Thapar's publications

 Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 1961 ( Oxford University Press) ; A History of India : Volume 1, 1966 ( Penguin) ; The Past and Prejudice, NBT ( 1975) ; Ancient Indian Social History : Some Interpretations, 1978 ( Orient Blackswan) ; From Lineages to State 1985 : Social Formations of the Mid-First Millenium B.C. in the Ganges Valley, 1985  ( Oxford University Press) ; Interpreting Early India, 1992 ( Oxford University Press) ; Sakuntala : Text, Reading, Historie, 2002 ( Anthem) . Somanatha : The Many Voices of History, Verso ( 2005)  ; The Aryan : Recasting Constructs, Three Essays ( 2008) ; The Past As Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History, 2014

 

The lecture will be live on  facebook.com/newsocialistinitiative.nsi.
The zoom invite will be shared individually.

Please write to us at democracydialogues@gmail.com if you are interested in attending the lecture.

( Here is a playlist of earlier lectures in the Democracy Dialogues Series )

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