دانلود کتاب Indian tales

The 16 stories in this collection of Indian heroes and heroines, their adventures, misfortunes and triumphs, of gods and demons and of animals, have been told to generations of children over the years.About Romila ThaparRomila Thapar is an Indian historian and Professor Emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.A graduate from Panjab University, Dr. Thapar completed her PhD in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.Her historical work portrays the origins of Hinduism as an evolving interplay between social forces. Her recent work on Somnath examines the evolution of the historiographies about the legendary Gujarat temple.Thapar has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College de France in Paris. She was elected General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1999.