Voices

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 Idea of Culture (2018): Opening Address- Naveen Kishore

Naveen Kishore is publisher, Seagull Books and Managing Trustee of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts.

India-Pakistan Partition: Balti Voices from Ladakh – Zainab Akhter

Zainab Akhter is a research officer with the Centre for Internal and Regional Security at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Popular Art of the ‘Two Nations’ in the Mid-Twentieth Century - Yousuf Saeed

This illustrated talk was presented in November 2016, for the 2nd annual History for Peace conference, The Idea of Nationalism.

Nationalism and Identity - Bani Abidi, Prateek Raja

Bani Abidi is a widely exhibited Pakistani artist. Prateek Raja is the co-founder of Experimenter.

Nationalism and the School Curriculum

A conversation between Devi Kar, Anil Sethi, Nilanjana Gupta and Joyeeta Dey