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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 Idea of India (Calcutta),2017: Opening Address- Naveen Kishore

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

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.

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.

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.

Communal Identities in the Historiography of Early India: A Preliminary Note - Vishwamohan Jha

Dr Vishwamohan Jha specialises in Indian history and has prepared textbook material for the School of Open Learning, DU, as well as IGNOU.