This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference, Coimbatore held in October 2024. I will begin by recounting an experience that we had in November 2022 when we did a workshop at Shantiniketan—a small university town near Kolkata—with school children studying in classes 4 and 5. We conducted a workshop where we made multiple cards that could be classified into two broad categories—national identities (Indian, German, British etc.) and non-national identities (re

Call for Applications: Duration: July 2025 – March 2026 Application deadline: 7 May 2025 The past seven decades, since India’s...

DAY 3 | 3 AUGUST 2024 The Many Belongings That Make Us Facilitated by Sudhanva Deshpande Do each of us feel a sense of belonging? Is it...

Janaki Nair spoke on 'Can History Wars Foster an Idea of Justice' The Idea of Justice Chapter Two took place at Shiv Nadar School,...

Marjorie Brown interacts with students at the workshop on November 28, 2023 In association with Takshila Educational Society, REWIND—The...

The idea of justice is a fundamental concept that has been debated and discussed by philosophers, legal scholars and ordinary people for...

The annual History for Peace conference—The Idea of Justice—was held at the Tollygunge Club, Calcutta between August 3 and 5, 2023. The...

NOW OPEN FOR ALL The idea of justice is a fundamental concept that has been debated and discussed by philosophers, legal scholars and...

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,...

28 high school teachers from 18 schools in Kolkata participated in the workshop titled 'Caste in/and the Indian Constitution' at The...

A History for Peace workshop on the Armed Forces Special Power Act and fundamental rights in the Indian constitution

A resource discussing the need to embed subaltern perspectives of queerness into the South Asian classroom through the analysis of a film

This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...

This lecture was delivered as part of the History for Peace conference titled 'Beyond ‘Teaching’: A Conference on the Meaning of...

This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...

'It is high time that we move from a “singular voice of history to one that is multivocal” by emphatically asserting footnotes that...

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...

Recently, we concluded a workshop series for high school teachers based on the research Sushrita Acharjee worked on for History for...

Following from an insightful presentation by Shafia Afroz on the teaching of the 1971 Liberation War across schools in Bangladesh, a...

Joyeeta Dey 'Stereotyping is easy, which is why it’s called a ‘mental shortcut’. One way we do it, almost without thinking, is by...