The conversations begun in the Calcutta chapter of The Idea of India continued over the Bangalore edition of the conference, co-organized by and hosted at the Vidyashilp Academy. The wide range of content explored cross border perspectives both within and outside school history syllabi and illustrated the kinds of directions the arts can lead relevant socio-political discussions in, even including an oral history presentation by the school's students.

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Contents

Culture and School

PADMA M. SARANGAPANI

Collective History and Identity

ANAM ZAKARIA

Panel Discussion

PADMA SARANGAPANI, ANAM ZAKARIA, MANOSH CHOWDHURY, NAEEM MOHAIEMEN

Gaps, Erasures, Silences: How the Arts Provoke History

ARUNDHATI GHOSH

The Challenges of Staging Communalism in these Times: The Aesthetics of Jana Natya Manch Plays

KOMITA DHANDA (An Illustrated Talk)

Heritage, Conservation and Pedagogy

ABEER GUPTA

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