Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been General President of the Indian History Congress. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds honorary doctorates from Universities of Calcutta, Oxford and Chicago, among others. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and SOAS, London. She has edited and written several books including Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, Somanatha: the Many Voices of a History, A History of India (Volume One), and Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300. Her area of specialisation is in early Indian history. In 2008 she was awarded the prestigious Kluge Prize of the Library of Congress, USA. You can read more about her and her work here.
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