A Tribute to D.N. Jha, a Historian Who Will Be Remembered for Treasuring Plurality Abuses and threats to his life were hurled at him, but he did not flinch from putting forth the evidentiary and the analytical positions that emerged from his in-depth studies. D.N. Jha. Photo: Twitter/@manojkumarjnu History05/Feb/2021 The passing away of Professor Dwijendra Narayan Jha on February 4, 2021, at the age of 81, caught many of us, including this writer, unawares. True, this former Professor of History of Delhi University and one of the stalwarts in the study of early Indian history was not getting any younger these days and had been ailing for the last few years. Yet, there was absolutely no hint that his end was around when he came for his last public appearance for his online lecture, organised by the Kolkata-based academic body, Society for Understanding Culture and History in India (SUCHI) on January 10, 2021.