Frases de Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar es historiadora india.

✵ 30. noviembre 1931
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“References to what have been interpreted as configurations of stars have been used to suggest dates of about 4000 BC for these hymns”, .... [but] “planetary positions could have been observed in earlier times and such observations been handed down as part of an oral tradition”, [so that they] “do not constitute proof of the chronology of the Vedic hymns.”

Romila Thapar: “The Perennial Aryans”, Seminar, December 1992., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074243/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

“Those that question their theories are dismissed as Marxists!”

Romila Thapar: “The theory of Aryan race and India”, Social Scientist, January-March 1996, p. 17. , quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074243/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

“Nations are not easily forged since many identities have to be coalesced.”

The Past as Present : Forging Contemporary Identities Through History

“Epic literature is not history but is again a way of looking at the past.”

Fuente: Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, p. 100.

“Nationalism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject.”

Fuente: Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, p. 19.

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