Seventh Annual History for Peace Conference: The Idea of Justice | Report
The annual History for Peace conference—The Idea of Justice—was held at the Tollygunge Club, Calcutta between August 3 and 5, 2023. The...
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Urvi Shah
- Aug 21
- 11 min
The Idea of Justice - Chapter 2 | Delhi NCR
NOW OPEN FOR ALL The idea of justice is a fundamental concept that has been debated and discussed by philosophers, legal scholars and...
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Urvi Shah
- Jul 3
- 4 min
Teaching the Constitution: Caste Bias and Discrimination in Everyday Life - A Lesson Plan
This lesson plan was introduced to 28 teachers from ICSE and CBSE schools based in Kolkata at a History for Peace workshop on June 28,...
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Urvi Shah
- Jul 3
- 4 min
Caste in/and the Indian Constitution: A Workshop Report
28 high school teachers from 18 schools in Kolkata participated in the workshop titled 'Caste in/and the Indian Constitution' at The...
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Anchita Dasgupta
- Jun 16
- 9 min
Queerness as 'Art': Naveen Kishore’s ‘Performing the Goddess’ as a Pedagogic Tool
A resource discussing the need to embed subaltern perspectives of queerness into the South Asian classroom through the analysis of a film
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History for Peace
- May 22
- 18 min
Why is History Crucial to Politics? - Romila Thapar
This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...
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History for Peace
- May 15
- 17 min
Historical Monuments in the Public Domain - Sudipta Sen
This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...
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History for Peace
- May 8
- 36 min
Perspectives in Pedagogy- Shahnaaz Khan
This lecture was delivered as part of the History for Peace conference titled 'Beyond ‘Teaching’: A Conference on the Meaning of...
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History for Peace
- Apr 17
- 22 min
Dr B.R. Ambedkar and Democracy - Anurag Bhaskar
This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...
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History for Peace
- Apr 7
- 16 min
The Idea of Democracy - Chapter 3 | Chandigarh
Erosion of civil liberties, suppression of political opposition and dissent, weakening of independent media, manipulation of electoral...
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History for Peace
- Mar 6
- 2 min
History and Her Source - Aloka Parasher Sen
'It is high time that we move from a “singular voice of history to one that is multivocal” by emphatically asserting footnotes that...
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History for Peace
- Jan 27
- 4 min
Peasant Movements through the Eyes of Somnath Hore
A workshop at Arthshila, Ahmedabad, commemorating the artist's centenary.
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History for Peace
- Jan 2
- 1 min
'Humanity Dehumanised': The Bengal Famine of '43 and Chittaprosad
A classroom module looking at the Bengal Famine of '43 and the arts.
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rajosmita218
- Sep 30, 2022
- 16 min
Report on the sixth annual History for Peace Conference: The Idea of Democracy
DAY 1 | August 4 2022 The annual History for Peace conference took place on 4, 5, 6 August 2022. It started with the opening address by...
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History for Peace
- May 10, 2022
- 5 min
The Peasant Movements through the Eyes of Somnath Hore: Workshop Report
Read a Report of 'The Peasant Movements through the Eyes of Somnath Hore' workshop here.
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Ranita Ray
- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min
Thinking with Films: The historical film edition
If you are a social science teacher concerned about historical films being consumed by your students unquestioningly as 'historical...
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History for Peace
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
The Future of our Past: The Textbook and Ways of being Indian - Janaki Nair
A talk held as part of the Between Teaching and Learning workshop series in December 2021. 'For too long, the history textbook has been...
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History for Peace
- Oct 9, 2021
- 15 min
Art of Looking: Engaging with Art Critically, Creatively and Contextually - Angel Roy Thomas
Download the complete module here: Looking at art is not a straight-forward process involving sight only, but is imbued with our...
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History for Peace
- Jul 16, 2021
- 1 min
Revisiting 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War through Art: Teaching Resources
Recently, we concluded a workshop series for high school teachers based on the research Sushrita Acharjee worked on for History for...
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History for Peace
- Jul 16, 2021
- 4 min
Bangladeshi Classroom Perspectives on the Liberation War: A report of a Q & A
Following from an insightful presentation by Shafia Afroz on the teaching of the 1971 Liberation War across schools in Bangladesh, a...
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