Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is an Honorary Fellow of SOAS and of St Antony’s College and Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford, and the recipient of honorary doctorates from Oxford, Edinburgh, Chicago, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Paris. She was elected the General President of the Indian History Congress (1983), a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (1999), the first Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South, US Library of Congress (2004), a Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009) and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society (2019). She was jointly awarded the 2008 Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity, of which other recipients include Juergen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Leszek Kolakowski. Her books include: Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas (1961); A History of India: Volume 1 (1966); Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, (1978); From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganges Valley (1985); Interpreting Early India (1992); Early India: From Origins to AD 1300 (2002); The Aryan: Recasting Constructs (2008); The Past before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India (2013); Voices of Dissent: An essay (2021).

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