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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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Salient Features of the Current History Textbooks of the NCERT - Anil Sethi

Prof. Anil Sethi is Professor of History and History Education at the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.

Keynote Address at the International Conference on Teaching History - Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia is a feminist and independent publisher, oral historian and author.

Remembering and Teaching a Violent Past: Choices, Challenges and Chances - Dr. Barbara Christophe

Dr. Christophe is the head of the Memory Cultures Research Forum at the Georg Eckert Institute.

Challenging the Potential Consequences of Pakistani Textbooks : Radicalization or Peace-Building?

Ayaz Naseem teaches at the Department of Education, Concordia University in Montreal. Michelle Savard is a Doctoral student at the same.

Nationalism in India: Past and Present - Irfan Habib (read by Arun Bandhopadhyay)

Paper by Prof. Irfan Habib, delivered by Prof Arun Bandhopadhyay (University of Calcutta) at The Idea of Nationalism, Calcutta, 2016.