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History for Peace
Sep 2, 20247 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...
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Urvi Shah
Dec 30, 20236 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,...
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Urvi Shah
Dec 4, 20234 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...
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Urvi Shah
Sep 30, 202323 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...
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Urvi Shah
Jul 3, 20234 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...
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History for Peace
Dec 21, 20211 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...
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History for Peace
Oct 20, 20202 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...
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History for Peace
Sep 7, 201924 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.
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History for Peace
Apr 19, 201926 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.
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History for Peace
Mar 28, 201925 min read
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, 20176 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.
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History for Peace
May 22, 201711 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.
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History for Peace
May 4, 20175 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.
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History for Peace
Apr 18, 20176 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.
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History for Peace
Mar 7, 20179 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.
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