Comments on: The High Priestess Speaks Again!

By: Random Surfer

Random Surfer — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:46:56 +0000

@saurav basu

Have you heard of peer-review. Have you ever wondered why the results of research work are not published in personal webpages but in research journals. Do you have any idea of the review a research output is subjected to by experts in the respective areas before it is finally published in a journal. You are an amateur historian as you have said, and you have hardly any capacity to question the quality of Romila Thapar’s work. Why don’t you try to get your work peer-reviewed and published in a journal of international repute before tarnishing the image a respected academic scholar.

By: Saurav Basu

Saurav Basu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:09:02 +0000

@chris

It is clear that your subaltern sensitivities have been hurt. Failed scholars like you are the chief reason why the tentacles of Islamic terrorism are enveloping the world. Moreover, we see no reason to celebrate a doctrine that has killed more civilians in a century than in the entire history of mankind. It is Romila Thapar and her communist comrades like R S Sharma and D N Jha who have dubbed an entire generation of Indian scholars as ‘nationalist’ whose stirring contributions to Indian History are practically unknown to the likes of you whose scholarship is restricted to a few standard entry level texts bereft of reading of even the primary sources. Practicing academic apartheid and witch hunts which the pinkies of JNU indulge in are only signs of a stalinist savagery.

The problem is if amateur historians like me can dismantle the substructure of her thought, then it speaks volumes on the absymmal quality of her works….
Two instances can be found here;
http://azygos.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/06/sins-against-hinduism.htm
http://azygos.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/06/the-marxization-of-the-upanishads.htm

Regards,
Dr. Saurav Basu

By: PINAKI TALUKDAR

PINAKI TALUKDAR — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:38:42 +0000

Thank you Sandeep.
With people like you around, who needs Romila Thapar ?
We just need you and a bit of intellectual narcotics to die before seeing our beloved country become a nuthouse.

By: Ashish Hanwadikar

Ashish Hanwadikar — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:15:12 +0000

Could you please give some references where Romila Thapar supported or propogated the Aryan Invasion Theory?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:35:53 +0000

Your comments attempting to discredit the academic standing of Professor Thapar are embarassingly ridiculous and indicative of the hindu chauvinism that plagues your countries “academic” institutions. Romila Thapar is probably the most prolific and incisive Historian to emerge from India (with perhaps Partha Chatterjee or Ranajit Guha as competition) you should be celebrating her rather than criticising her. As a historian, Prof. Thapar is entitled to alter her views over the past 50 years if any of you have read her other contributions to the historiography of the subcontinent I am sure that you will be suprised and withdraw your shameful remarks. Few of your comments are coherent or written in university standard English, consequently I think it is rather ironic that you dare to challenge the authority of so articulate a writer.

By: vakil

vakil — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:18:39 +0000

As history is past, what is Romila Thapar’s past.She belongs to a
Panjabi community.She hence can be a Punjabi Historian only.She can not be a world historian or Indian historian.The reason for her mania towards ancient Indian History like untrue aryan-invasion is the community to which she belongs has no reliable and known history.
It always begins and ends with nothing; it simply reproduces the history of ancient Hindu culture. This has created an inferiority complex in her and that is exhibited by way of writing jealousy history. So, her writings are encouraged by those who are equally placed like her in Indian society. Comrades are the chief-ones, because, they need to pay respects to their step-mother, living from India. Giving out-side support is always handy for them

By: seema

seema — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:57:10 +0000

sandeep do not gorget people like her belong to a secular brigade yaar.They are allergic to hindu,hinduism so on and so forth so do not trouble her if people like you will expose her with facts she wont be able to face it so give her time to relax…

By: varnam: History: India Archives

varnam: History: India Archives — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:02:57 +0000

[...] He said it’s tiles were “stamped in a variety of colourful motifs of humans, animals, mystical creatures, flowers and other abstract designs… Most of the tiles are inscribed in the Karoshthi script” prevalent in civilisations of north- western India circa AD 3rd-4th century. “The features speak of some highly advanced urban civilisation which looks to have flourished on this plateau in the ancient period,” Zahid said and claimed the human-animal motifs on the few exposed tiles were the first to be noticed at any archaeological site. [KASHMIR-DISCOVERY via IndiaArchaeology] Most most history books don’t mention kharoshthi and the only reference I could find were in the books of Romila Thapar[3, 5]. Sometime before 530 B.C., Cyrus the Achaemenid emperor of Persia converted Gandhara into his satrapy, the most famous city of which was Takshashila where Iranian, Indian and Hellenistic Greek learning mingled. The language of the Achaemenid empire was Aramaic (the same language supposedly spoken by Jesus Christ) and kharoshthi was derived from it. [...]

By: girish

girish — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:26:19 +0000

Have are your opinions now - on pseudo secularism as well as pseudo hindutva - in the last 18 months.

By: Alka

Alka — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sandeep, she is O SO Secular, that you can not question her on this issue. I remember when Talibans were bombing Bamiyan Buddha, her O SO Secular voice was saying that those were not the images of Buddha at all. There was no historical evidence to prove that those images were of Buddha!
Therefore her secular credentials are quite high! And she is quite high on intelligence. One day she will prove that Talibans derive inspiration from Aryan invasion. And they suffered in the hands of Aryans, hence this organisation called Al Kaida.