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
- 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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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 20, 2020
- 2 min
Between state narratives and people’s memories of 1971 - Anam Zakaria
'While Pakistan saw 1971 through the sense of loss, similar to how India saw 1947, for Bangladesh, 1971 marked bloodshed, but also the...
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History for Peace
- Sep 7, 2019
- 24 min
What Can Take The Place Of A Single, Teachable, Usable Past? - Janaki Nair
Janaki Nair is Professor of Modern Indian history at the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India.
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History for Peace
- Apr 19, 2019
- 26 min
Can History Contribute To Peace? Krishna Kumar
Krishna Kumar is an educationist and former director of NCERT. He is also a children's author.
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History for Peace
- Mar 28, 2019
- 25 min
History Textbooks and the Idea of India
Krishna Kumar, Hari Vasudevan, Shireen Maswood and Manish Jain in conversation.
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History for Peace
- Sep 2, 2017
- 6 min
Bias and Hate in History Textbook Narratives - Qasim Aslam
Qasim Aslam is the co-founder of The History Project Society, an initiative that aims to innovate the way history is taught.
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History for Peace
- May 22, 2017
- 11 min
A talk by Swaleha Alam Shahzada, Citizens Archive of Pakistan
Swaleha went on to head a private school in Karachi before becoming CAP’s Executive Director in June 2012.
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History for Peace
- May 4, 2017
- 5 min
Pakistani Historiography - Mubarak Ali
Dr Mubarak Ali is former Professor, Department of History, University of Sindh and Former Resident Director of the Goethe Institut, Lahore.
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History for Peace
- Apr 18, 2017
- 6 min
Examining Narratives on South Asian Past in Textbooks of Bangladesh - Shreya Ghosh
Shreya Ghosh's research area comprises school textbooks in Bangladesh and nationalist historiography in South Asia.
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History for Peace
- Mar 7, 2017
- 9 min
Salient Features of the Current History Textbooks of the NCERT - Anil Sethi
Prof. Anil Sethi is Professor of History and History Education at the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
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