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Hiedelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics,
– Working Paper 33, December 2007

IIC Quarterly (New Delhi: India International Centre) Vol. 32 (2& 3) Winter, 2005, pp. 165-76
There was a time when peoples of Northeast India were described as belonging to the Mongoloid race 1. Today Mongoloid and other racial categories such as Negroid or Caucasoid — and indeed, the very idea of race as a biological category — have no standing in scientific circles. For there is more diversity of gene types within what was once thought of as a single ‘race’ than between ‘races.’ (…)

May 23, 2001
– [This is a Background Paper for the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), Karachi, which is part of a larger study on Bonded Labour undertaken by PILER for the International Labour Organisation.]

22 April 2006
The desirability and efficacy of affirmative actions in the form of caste-based reservations, in educational institutions at various levels and job opportunities, has again come to occupy the centre-stage of our social discourse.
So far as the government of India is concerned, two moves are underway.
One, extend reservation to the OBCs even in the portals of higher education including the "institutes of excellence". While this is partly a new initiative, it is partly also (…)

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".