Romila Thapar, ‘A history of India 1. Pelican. (also quoted in https://aboutfilm.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/romila-thapar-%E2%80%93-a-history-of-india-and-the-absence-of-satan/ https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/04/romila-thapar-on-hinduism.html)
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Romila Thapar: “The Perennial Aryans”, Seminar, December 1992., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074243/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
“Those that question their theories are dismissed as Marxists!”
Romila Thapar: “The theory of Aryan race and India”, Social Scientist, January-March 1996, p. 17. , quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074243/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
Romila Thapar, quoted from Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002) by K. Elst.
The Past as Present : Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
“Nations are not easily forged since many identities have to be coalesced.”
The Past as Present : Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
“Epic literature is not history but is again a way of looking at the past.”
Source: Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, p. 100.
“Nationalism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject.”
Source: Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, p. 19.
Introduction, xxiv.
Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
