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Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar is an Indian historian of ancient and early medieval India, long a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Her books include studies of Ashoka and the Mauryas, A History of India and Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History, which examines how Mahmud of Ghazni's raid on Somnath was remembered. She received the Kluge Prize in 2008.
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