Birthdate: November 30, 1931
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Romila Thapar is a distinguished Indian historian renowned for her expertise in ancient Indian history, particularly focusing on social-historical methods to analyze the changes in northern India during the mid-first millennium BCE. As a Professor Emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru University, she has played a pivotal role in unraveling the process by which Indo-Aryan pastoral groups established caste-based states in the Gangetic Plain. Thapar is a prolific author of several seminal works on Indian history and has received numerous honorary doctorates and prestigious awards for her scholarly contributions, including the highly esteemed US Library of Congress’s Kluge Prize.
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