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Some Forgotten Realities of the Partition Story: Rajmohan Gandhi
Presented by History for Peace in collaboration with Karwaan - The Heritage Exploration Initiative. The year 1947 is as evocative of...
History for Peace
Oct 13, 20201 min read


Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Life & Times - Salima Hashmi in Conversation with Kavita Panjabi
This conversation is part of our digital series 'Political Partitions: Human Stories'. A conversation between artist and social activist...
History for Peace
Oct 5, 202033 min read


Looking Back through our Identities – Itihāsa Purāna- Aloka Parasher Sen
Meaning of words and their contextual use is important. How are Myth and History commonly understood and what, against this, is meant by...
History for Peace
Oct 3, 20206 min read


Public Interest Litigations: On the Bhima Koregaon PIL-Vrinda Grover
Vrinda Grover is a lawyer, researcher, and human rights and women’s rights activist based in New Delhi, India.
History for Peace
Oct 3, 202017 min read


Watch ‘Writing Early India: Conversations with Romila Thapar’ here!
Developing sound historical consciousness is critical in our ability to effectively respond to the realities we are faced with. Active...
History for Peace
Sep 15, 20201 min read


Arrest without Trial-Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar is an Indian historian as well as an Emeritus professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
History for Peace
Sep 3, 20208 min read


From Swadeshi to the Constitution: Nandalal Bose and the Nationalist Project-Siva Kumar
R. Siva Kumar is an Indian contemporary art historian, art critic and curator.
History for Peace
Aug 27, 202028 min read


A Division of Hearts, Minds, Properties and... -Urvashi Butalia
Delivered as part of Shared Histories, a History for Peace conference held at and co-organized by St Kabir Public School, Chandigarh.
History for Peace
Aug 8, 202031 min read


Article 370 in the Constituent Assembly: Shaping a Hindu Jammu and a Muslim Kashmir-Mridu Rai
Mridu Rai is the author of the prizewinning book Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir.
History for Peace
Aug 5, 202014 min read


Nationalism and the Constitution-Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar is an Indian historian and an Emeritus professor at the JNU. Her principal area of study is ancient India.
History for Peace
Aug 4, 202017 min read


The Making of the 5th and 6th Schedule-Nandini Sundar
Nandini Sundar is a professor of sociology at the DSE whose research interests include political sociology, law and inequality.
History for Peace
Aug 4, 202021 min read


Learning to Live with the Past-Krishna Kumar
Krishna Kumar is an educationist, former Director of NCERT, bilingual author, columnist and writer for children.
History for Peace
Aug 4, 202022 min read


Rehabilitating Secularism: An Intellectual, Ethical and Political Approach-Rajeev Bhargava
Rajeev Bhargava is Professor at CSDS, Delhi and currently, Director of the Centre’s Institute of Indian Thought.
History for Peace
Aug 4, 202028 min read


The Transformative Constitution-Gautam Bhatia
Gautam Bhatia wrote Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Freedom of Speech under the Indian Constitution and, The Transformative Constitution.
History for Peace
Aug 4, 202028 min read


Narratives of Conflict and Resolution-Kumkum Roy
Kumkum Roy teaches ancient Indian History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
History for Peace
Jun 24, 202028 min read


The Idea of Archives-Abeer Gupta
Abeer Gupta, is currently director of Krishnakriti Foundation, Hyderabad. He is also director of Achi Association India.
History for Peace
Jun 8, 202022 min read


Oral History as Archiving: Aanchal Malhotra and Anam Zakaria in conversation with Tina Servaia
Aanchal Malhotra is a visual artist and oral historian. Anam Zakaria is an author and educationist. Tina Sevaia is a teaching practitioner.
History for Peace
May 19, 202036 min read


The Pedagogic Ideas of History Teachers and their Implications-Latika Gupta
Latika Gupta teaches educational theory and pedagogy courses at Delhi University’s Central Institute of Education.
History for Peace
May 5, 202022 min read


Representing the Past: The Politics of Enquiry-Sundar Sarukkai
Sundar Sarukkai is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry among others.
History for Peace
Apr 21, 202027 min read


The strange and amusing history of Indian Commercial Radio - Ameen Sayani
Ameen Sayani is a popular former radio announcer from India.
History for Peace
Apr 1, 20208 min read
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