Professor Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India visited the University of California at Berkeley at the invitation of the Center for South Asia Studies and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies to present two lectures in November 2002. The lecture held November 6, 2002 in the University of California at Berkeley’s Sibley Auditorium was titled "History and Contemporary Politics in India".