History for Peace

Teaching and Learning history for peace and understanding

A network of educators and members of civil society in the subcontinent

Camera as Witness (Part II): Ryan Lobo continued

Million Mutinies The Bir Khalsa is but one narrative among many in India waking to a smaller world and may help us understand how hidden aspects of history are revealed through performance or storytelling ccccOur stories and performances reveal our selves in ways that words...

Camera as Witness (Part II) : High Noon in Lucknow, Ryan Lobo

‘High Noon in Lucknow’ is a series of photographs I made of museums and memorials in Lucknow. I made photographs of monuments across time and periods of power, and of contemporary politicians like Mayawati who built numerous large statues commemorating her self. I made photographs...

The Camera as Witness( Part I) : Joy LK Pachau

Visualising Mizo History Through Photographs People of the North East often complain about the lack of representation of their history in the curricula of most school boards. One of the reasons for this is that, until recently, besides the colonial ethnographies, there was hardly any...

Romila Thapar, Alok Mathur, Amita Prasad and Tina Servaia – In Conversation

Amita Prasad. We meet on the fifteenth of August, and the significance of this date is known to many of us here. Many of us have come here after a flag-hoisting ceremony in school, and I am no exception. When I was watching the children...

How to Draw Histories? Art as Method

My presentation is about four of my art projects based on the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. My argument in the course of this presentation is that that the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict is a product of a misinterpretation of history. A renowned Sri Lanka historian...

The Un-equivalence of Violence: The Communal Question in Janam’s Plays

Jana Natya Manch is based in Delhi. Sometimes we travel but essentially we are a Delhi-based group, an amateur group in the strict sense of the term because we don’t earn from the theatre we do. We are all professionals in various fields—I am a...

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