Lit for Life 2014 - The Past Before Us: Historical traditions of early North India 

You have got to be kidding us here !

Romila Thapar knows Sanskrit. She has worked on the Social, Economic and Literary histories of Ancient India. It is impossible to publish in these fields without a working knowledge of Sanskrit. She is not however a Sanskritist. A Sanskritist is someone who is interested in the translation and detailed interpretation of Sanskrit texts. That requires a linguistic training. Thapar is a historian, not a linguist. Pick up any book that she’s written, take a look at the footnotes and end notes. All primary information is noted there.

She is also saying shramnik which means Monks. Also called Buddhists or Jain, they are also a parralel track.

u deserve Nobel prize for this

Oxford Scholar ; professor emeritus JNU......." old lady blabbering" showes urs......

Amish Trpathi and Vikram sampath need another 30 to 40 years perhaps. Kindly wait😄😄😄

yes, the ones where the Vedic culture invented the computer 5000 years ago is much much better.