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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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The Sound of Falling Leaves: Qurratulain Hyder's Narratives of Dispossession - Aamer Hussein

Find the Research Paper emerging out of this talk here: https://www.historyforpeace.pw/post/partitioning-women-in-the-world-of-men-a-stud...

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...

The Inter-face of Region and Religion in the Panjab-Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar is an Indian historian as well as an Emeritus professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Some Forgotten Realities of the Partition Story: Rajmohan Gandhi

Presented by History for Peace in collaboration with Karwaan - The Heritage Exploration Initiative. The year 1947 is as evocative of...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Life & Times - Salima Hashmi in Conversation with Kavita Panjabi

This conversation is part of our digital series 'Political Partitions: Human Stories'. A conversation between artist and social activist...