"The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India."
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2014
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Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Chair: Emma Dench, Professor of the Classics and of History, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
The claim, often made, that India-uniquely among civilizations-lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according to Romila Thapar: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. In The Past Before Us, a distinguished scholar of ancient India guides us through a panoramic survey of the historical traditions of North India. Thapar reveals a deep and sophisticated consciousness of history embedded in the diverse body of classical Indian literature.
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I'm listening her all lectures available in CZcams one by one..
She is absolutely one of the most intellectual mind of our time..
Pranam Promila mam 🙏❤️
Classic bengali bootlicking.
Can you share some of them?
I request professor Romila Thapar to write a history of origin of Koran and the Islam.
Well,it's not under the area of expertise of her.
So all the written History was recorded by British, as per this lady, which formed the source documents and references for later period Historians. Now I understand why we have such a distorted history which is far from the true legacy of ancient India.
Such a weak argument. Challenge the idea not every Indian bad kind of argument.
Well there are also persian records.(ghaznavid,sultanate & mughal period)
That is not a weak argumentt. Her entire work is based on records written from a euriocentric perspective, rather than an Indic perspective. Everything is judged from a White man view. you need to brush up your knowledge on Post-Colonialism and Euricentricism.@@nowwhat6716
Most of the references in Indian scriptures are allegorical and symbolic - if you cannot read past their cipheric language, you won't understand anything.
And as far as history is concerned, almost everything prior to the rise of Greeks and the Greco-Persian wars is fuzzy and cannot be understood without even the slightest bit of certainty.
Romila thapar is maharani of ancient indian history.
Maharani of propoganda
@@roshansingh1623 thoda orr waqt ka wait karoo ... sab samajh mae aayegaa...
Connect the historical geography.
Little bit to know. Nomedi to nomenclature.
Good historian ❤
History never been in mind.its require documents.not to hurt your sentiment. Its true.partially gone otherway.one American historian said, on the eve of the destruction of twins tower ,now we got a history.MEANINGS
Their research and scientifical arguments based on different perspectives and evidences from auxillary sciences of history provide different us diff. views of events ...
These Historians saved India from the mythological and brahmannical intrepretation of history and communalisation of history..hats off!!
Jews are very good people...they know to teachbthe lesion and to rewright history
Mr Zahid.... I am sure you don't know the difference between mythologic and Hystory.......... 🙏
You muslim shut up , go to Arabia
Allah is also just fake , you Muhamedan !
What about the concept of 72 hoors in jannat by doing Jihad
Romila Thapar is most learned lady among Indian historian
Best lier.
Best story teller.... As Allahabad high court said 🤣🤣
That is why we have citizens like you who have a colonial mindset
Worst learned and ignorant lady😮?
Learned distorian of lndian history.
Erudite Scholarship unparalleled 🎉
got to 10 min
Aditya Gaiha, bombastic nonsense doesn't prove any point.
Is she still alive?!?
Unfortunately yes
Madam really respect ur age and it's my Indian tradition .....can you write about kuran history how Allah sent that holi book to mankind...I am sure you can cook some old granny story on that too.
And also the granny story that tells first man and woman fall on the trap of a devil and the all knowning God knew nothing about that , but simply cursed them down on the earth to tell the tales of his legacy... And then all powerful God could not tame the human race but had to send messengers after messengers and still failed..
It seems you are desperate to read fantasy stories in religious scriptures, and laugh at others, hope you learn something from religion instead of uttering blah blah blah...
@@knh516 that what I am saying man..... Learn something from religious books...... She is making fun of book like mahabharata and ramayana its also hindu scriptures....... ✌️....
I don't know she was a professor of history or she is a professor of literatures .....she have not refer any scientific evidence .....only collective stories of some British historians she have written essay that she is reading.....
She is sister of Karan Thapar who justify by compair 1947 riots during Indian division to 1990 kasmari Hindus masacard ....what can any body expect from her.....and her ideology ....and any Indian can think what baised history she will write.
Why professor Romila Thapar's history is absent on the history of spiritual India. Why she has not done any research work on how spiritualism evolved in India. Was it a deliberate or calculated move ?
So what if it is deliberate? Not everyone is interested in ''spiritualism'' nor is there any obligation to. You're spiritual? Great, congratulations. Don't impose or expect it of us.
Because Spritualism was endemic to India. Not everyone is interested is based on European Argument, who had suffered when Church weilded power.
Many are not interested in mughal History, in that case your contention fall flat. We don't want to know mughal polity, We want to learn Kautilayan Polity, and post-Ashokan polity. You need to do some research and de-colonize your mind. @@anshuecon
Spiritualism - compassaion was present in Buddhist and Jains.. Hinduism adopted it after Puranas and just after arrival of Turks😁😁
Pl dont show faces of Romill tapar K thapars etc as they happen to be bad omen for India???
Distorted history this is.
If really want to know the history, then go to pushpendra kulshreshtha, sushil pandit, Rajiv Malhotra etc
funny comparison ... anybody can demolish their arguments.... if taken seriously...
IN indiA why?
Mr Rajiv is not a historian and by no strech of imagination can be described as a social scientist.
He is a quack scientist and anyone taking him seriously should have to consult a psychiatrist.
@@drgalibhussainof course they aren't historians, if really want to know history then read 'eliot and dowsons history of india'. But still it's ur choice aap Irfan habib or romilla aunty ko padho kisne roka h🙏
😂🤣🤣 Shakha Bois. Stop embarrassing yourself. Your fake agenda driven history has no authenticity in academia. 😂😂...
These historians are basing their arguments on scientifically, historically and archeologically discredited versions of history. They look at Indian history, culture, religion and language through the eyes of the western, colonial and biased scholars who have any no idea of the Indian traditions and eastern philosophy and thought. Cultural and historical colonialism at its best with a biased and mistaken view of actual history.
So you think it's better to work with unscientific methods?
+20shourya Kindly re-read my comment carefully before sending replies. What I am saying is that the earlier theories have been scientifically discredited / disproved in addition to also being disproved by recent archeological and semantic / linguistic studies. Thank you.
its fanatic unscientific remotely studw ent of analytical not only acheological interpretation but being sadhum hindunlike rt wing seemanada asg ha ram you only support the kind of heritage of prostitution of devdasini by pundits in the safe enclave of mandir where hindu all were not equal what the fking make yo more hindu and talk stupidly as if hindun indi is your baaps sampati ropert yoy fking might not be citizen non paying bri parasite and come withred blood idiotic assertion as inda when you have mo legitemacu y of asserting anything on brhalf of india or hindu miion nincompoop stupid
its fanatic unscientific remotely student of analytical not only acheological interpretation but being sadhum hindun like rt wing aseemanada asha ram you only support the kind of heritage of prostitution of devdasini by pundits in the safe enclave of mandir where hindu all were not equal what the fking make yo more hindu and talk stupidly as if hindun indai is your baaps sampati ropert yoy fking might not be citizen non paying tax bni parasite and come withr ed blood idiotic paranoid superfluous superiority when you are ILLITERATE really
Entailing from your insightful and highly verbosity claims or refutation of the claims made by Mrs. Thapar , it seems that you happen to be a very prominent expert of the field .
She opens her mouth to tell history of lies
And people say Germans have best fairy tales.