Religion and Region - Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar is an Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India. Author of several books, including Early India, History and Beyond, The Past as Present, she is currently Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The overall region of Panjab is defined as those areas that relate to the geography of the five rivers and that have spoken Panjabi or its dialects akin to the main language. An attempt is made to look at the different regions of Panjab in terms of their environmental differences. The question is whether these different regions hosted different religions and if so, then why ? The period covered stops with the emergence of Sikhism since the recent centuries present another set of questions. Lecture delivered at Shared Histories - A History for Peace conference on Teaching History; 2 - 3 May 2019, St Kabir Public School, Chandigarh