Some anniversaries wait uneasily to be reached in the calendar. November 30, more than three months away, is one such. As the date when Romila Thapar turns ninety, it asks to be celebrated ahead of its click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Described as the \u2018pre-eminent historian of ancient India\u2019, she is exactly that. Just as Amartya Sen is the pre-eminent exponent of development and welfare economics. \u2018Left-leaning\u2019 would be another description of her \u2014 and, of course, of him \u2014 in a journalistically apt sense. But as a summary of their intellectual resources and energies, it amounts to a flat clich\u00e9. Both those descriptions show how the accurate can be incomplete and the correct, inadequate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Described as the \u2018pre-eminent historian of ancient India\u2019, she is exactly that. Just as Amartya Sen is the pre-eminent exponent of development and welfare economics. \u2018Left-leaning\u2019 would be another description of her \u2014 and, of course, of him \u2014 in a journalistically apt sense. But as a summary of their intellectual resources and energies, it amounts to a flat clich\u00e9. Both those descriptions show how the accurate can be incomplete and the correct, inadequate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some anniversaries wait uneasily to be reached in the calendar. November 30, more than three months away, is one such. As the date when Romila Thapar turns ninety, it asks to be celebrated ahead of its click. Described as the \u2018pre-eminent historian of ancient India\u2019, she is exactly that. Just as Amartya Sen is the … Continue reading ** History\u2019s muse – The Empress of Ancient Indian Studies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,7,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history","category-leaders","category-records-india-national","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11461,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}