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The History for Peace project serves as a platform for discussion, debate and the exchange of ideas pertaining to teaching and learning of history for peace and understanding.

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MYTH, HISTORY AND HISTORICAL TRADITIONS: UNDERSTANDING EARLY INDIAN LITERARY SOURCES - KANAD SINHA

This lecture was a part of the 'What is History' regional conference held in Chandigarh in October 2025. Just before me, Professor Supriya Varma––my teacher at JNU who taught us archaeology––delivered a lecture. In archaeology we study material remains. As we have been discussing social media and the popular reception of history over the last couple of days, we may also notice that in the public perception of history, the difference between history and archaeology is often confused. This is...

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Mothers and Others: How to bring the margins back into young lives - Jerry Pinto

This talk was delivered at Beyond Teaching: The Larger Meaning of Education, a History for Peace conference held in Kochi in January 2022.

India's Transformative Constitution: A Talk by Arvind Narrain for young students

Organized in collaboration with Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Lucknow. About the Speaker: Arvind Narrain has been involved with...

The Partition(s) Within and Without

I am going to introduce two projects that my colleagues and I have done at Srishti. I will also show you different stages of some of the...

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...

On Teaching History: Part II - Romila Thapar

Presented by History for Peace as part of the B.Ed course offered by Delhi University. Romila Thapar is an Indian historian as well as an...