Vijay Kumar Thakur

Vijay Kumar Thakur

Vijay Kumar Thakur, Professor of History, Patna University, was the author of Urbanisation in Ancient India (1981), Historiography of Indian Feudalism (1989) and Social Dimensions of Technology: Iron in Early India (1993). He also edited Towns in Pre-Modern India (1994) and (with A. Aounshuman) Peasants in Indian History (1995). Professor Thakur passed away in 2006 after bravely facing a long illness.