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Title: A History of India by Romila Thapar ISBN: 0-14-013835-8 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: December, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.76 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A must for any serious student of Indian history
Comment: Romila Thapar is the person to start with if u want an overview of Indian history. She does not concentrate so much on personalities as she does on the society of the relevant eras. Highly readable and certainly the best book of Indian history that I have read so far.
Rating: 5
Summary: An objective view of caste and economics
Comment: Romila Thapar is one of the leading Indian historians. Her earliest book, which was very well received academically, was on the emperor Asoka. Her subsequent writings have elaborated the effects of economics on Indian history more than other historians have done, but while she may draw on Marx for some insights, she cannot be written off as a "Marxist." Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, and Amartya Sen, all Nobel prize-winning economists, also use Marx to aid their interpretations of society when he makes sense.
Ms Thapar also writes cogently about that a topic that is very sensitive for Indians, namely, caste, and the effects of that system on Indian society through the ages. Some of her comments or interpretations on this subject may not please everyone, but the effect of this system in keeping down, frequently in a brutal manner, persons considered to be of lower caste, has been quite pernicious in Indian history. It is no good taking an ostrich-like attitude towards this topic, or going into denial, which some of my fellow Indians are prone to do.
This book could certainly be updated, but even as it stands it is a good introduction to Indian history.
Rating: 1
Summary: Romila's history
Comment: Romila Thapar is infamous for her ideological view of Indian History. This book is an interesting study of that ideology and how it affects the reading (and writing) of history, more than an account of history itself.
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Title: India: A History by John Keay ISBN: 0802137970 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 by Romila Thapar ISBN: 0520238990 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards, Gordon Johnson, C. A. Bayly ISBN: 0521566037 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: A History of Japan by R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger ISBN: 080482097X Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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