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Ram Sharan Sharma (26 November 1919 – 20 August 2011 [1]) was an Indian historian and Indologist [2] who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. [3] He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting faculty at University of Toronto (1965–1966).
(Only the first two were NCERT textbooks.) The Prime Minister forwarded the memorandum to the Education Minister suggesting that the books be withdrawn from circulation. In August 1977, R. S. Sharma's Ancient India was published, which was also targeted. The books were said to be "anti-Indian and anti-national" in content and "prejudicial to ...
Ancient India never developed a strong historiographical tradition comparable to the ones that existed in ancient Egypt, China, Islamic, Christian, and Greco-Roman civilizations. [24] However, it cannot be concluded that the ancient Indians lacked an understanding of objective historical writing, as there were some attempts akin to ...
His book, Medieval India, has been widely used as a textbook in schools and colleges around India. [ 11 ] [ 7 ] He belonged to the group of historians, along with Romila Thapar , R. S. Sharma , Bipan Chandra and Arjun Dev, who are sometimes referred to as "left-leaning."
Jha completed his Senior Secondary Schooling from Board of Secondary Certification, West Bengal with First Division. He did Intermediate Examination of Arts with first division and Bachelor of Arts (honours) in History at University of Calcutta and then his MA in history at Patna University where he was a student of Professor R.S. Sharma, who was amongst the first of modern Indian historians ...
Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in Feudalisation, Perspectives in Social and Economic History of Early India Indian Feudalism is a book by Indian professor Ram Sharan Sharma . The book analyses the practice of land grants, which became considerable in the Gupta period and widespread in the post-Gupta period.
The ancient Hindu text Arthashastra states, according to Sharma, that Aryas were free men and could not be subject to slavery under any circumstances. [26] The text contrasts Aryas with Shudra , but neither as a hereditary slave nor as an economically closed social stratum in a manner that the term Shudra later was interpreted.
[8] [9] R. C. Majumdar and RS Sharma mentioned the merger of this tribe or clan with Aryan or Brahmanical society and later getting affiliated with Mahishya, an offspring of Kshatriya father and Vaishya mother. [10] [11] Coin of a king of the Kaivartas in Varendra, circa 640–730 CE.