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The History for Peace Fellowship
Call for Applications: Duration: July 2025 – March 2026 Application deadline: 7 May 2025 The past seven decades, since India’s...
History for Peace
Apr 122 min read


The Idea of Belonging - Annual History for Peace Conference | Day 3: A Report
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...
History for Peace
Sep 2, 20247 min read


The Idea of Justice: Chapter 2, Delhi NCR| Report
Janaki Nair spoke on 'Can History Wars Foster an Idea of Justice' The Idea of Justice Chapter Two took place at Shiv Nadar School,...
Urvi Shah
Dec 30, 20236 min read


Notions of Justice During Apartheid in South Africa: Talk and Workshop by Marjorie Brown | Report
Marjorie Brown interacts with students at the workshop on November 28, 2023 In association with Takshila Educational Society, REWIND—The...
Urvi Shah
Dec 4, 20234 min read


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...
Urvi Shah
Sep 30, 202323 min read


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...
Urvi Shah
Jul 3, 20234 min read


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...
History for Peace
Dec 21, 20211 min read


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...
History for Peace
Oct 20, 20202 min read


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.
History for Peace
Sep 7, 201924 min read


Can History Contribute To Peace? Krishna Kumar
Krishna Kumar is an educationist and former director of NCERT. He is also a children's author.
History for Peace
Apr 19, 201926 min read


History Textbooks and the Idea of India
Krishna Kumar, Hari Vasudevan, Shireen Maswood and Manish Jain in conversation.
History for Peace
Mar 28, 201925 min read


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.
History for Peace
Sep 2, 20176 min read


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.
History for Peace
May 22, 201711 min read


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.
History for Peace
May 4, 20175 min read


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.
History for Peace
Apr 18, 20176 min read


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.
History for Peace
Mar 7, 20179 min read
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