Ancient Indians had a sense of history: Romila Thapar
At a conference in 1956 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, historian Romila Thapar, a student at the time, started thinking about one of the key questions at the event: did ancient Indians have a sense of history?
“A decade later, I realised that this was actually irrelevant. Even in ancient times in India, records were kept and reference made to some past events, which were believed to have happened,” she explained.
her book says : “We have to search for how the past saw its past as a parallel study to see how we see the past”
At a conference in 1956 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, historian Romila Thapar, a student at the time, started thinking about one of the key questions at the event: did ancient Indians have a sense of history?
“A decade later, I realised that this was actually irrelevant. Even in ancient times in India, records were kept and reference made to some past events, which were believed to have happened,” she explained.
her book says : “We have to search for how the past saw its past as a parallel study to see how we see the past”
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