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1971: Political Realities and People's Memories - Diven Nagpal
A classroom resource that sets a detailed outline of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
History for Peace
Dec 29, 202127 min read
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Revisiting 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War through Art: Teaching Resources
Recently, we concluded a workshop series for high school teachers based on the research Sushrita Acharjee worked on for History for...
History for Peace
Jul 16, 20211 min read
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Bangladeshi Classroom Perspectives on the Liberation War: A report of a Q & A
Following from an insightful presentation by Shafia Afroz on the teaching of the 1971 Liberation War across schools in Bangladesh, a...
History for Peace
Jul 16, 20214 min read
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Liberation War in Images: Photography - A Classroom Resource
Click here to read Sushrita's entire research document. Click below to download the PPT. This PPT is ideally complemented with a...
History for Peace
Jul 16, 20212 min read
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Liberation War in Images: Paintings - A Classroom Resource
Click here to read Sushrita Acharjee's complete research document. Click below to download the PPT. ACTIVITIES Below are three artworks...
History for Peace
Jul 16, 20212 min read
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1971: Songs of Liberation - A Classroom Resource
Click here to read Sushrita's entire research document. Download the PPT by clicking below. ACTIVITIES This could be turned into a group...
History for Peace
Jul 16, 20213 min read
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The Lasting Impact of Collectible Ephemera - A Classroom Resource
Click here to read Sushrita's entire research document. Click below to download the PPT. POSTERS IN THE HISTORY CLASSROOM Click on each...
History for Peace
Jul 16, 20212 min read
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Liberation War in Images: Paintings
by Sushrita Acharjee. Download the resource pdf here: Apart from the camera—pencil, brush, colour and canvas too proved to be lethal...
History for Peace
May 10, 20216 min read
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The Lasting Impact of Collectible Ephemera
by Sushrita Acharjee. You can download the resource pdf here: A plethora of ephemera, such as posters, placards, pamphlets, graffiti,...
History for Peace
May 10, 202110 min read
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Aesthetics of Resistance: Revisiting 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War through Various Art Forms
Cover Art: Untitled, Quamrul Hassan/https://bit.ly/3wHVqeb The existing scholarship on the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh seems to...
Sushrita Acharjee
May 10, 20212 min read
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1971: Songs of Liberation
by Sushrita Acharjee.
History for Peace
May 10, 202110 min read
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Liberation War in Images: Photography
by Sushrita Acharjee. You can download the resource here: War photography disturbs by exhibiting spectacular examples of how war...
History for Peace
May 10, 20216 min read
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Lost in Transition: Narratives of Non-existence - Deepak K. Singh
Deepak K Singh is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
History for Peace
Nov 16, 20202 min read
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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...
History for Peace
Oct 20, 20202 min read
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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...
History for Peace
Oct 5, 202033 min read
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Oral History as Archiving: Aanchal Malhotra and Anam Zakaria in conversation with Tina Servaia
Aanchal Malhotra is a visual artist and oral historian. Anam Zakaria is an author and educationist. Tina Sevaia is a teaching practitioner.
History for Peace
May 19, 202036 min read
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Collective History and Identity - Anam Zakaria
Anam Zakaria is an author, development professional, psychotherapist and educationist.
History for Peace
Aug 18, 201823 min read
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Teaching History without Political Borders - Afsan Chowdhury
Prof Afsan Chowdhury is currently Senior Advisor (Advocacy and Communication) and Adjunct Faculty at the BRAC University in Dhaka.
History for Peace
Dec 20, 20175 min read
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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.
History for Peace
Apr 18, 20176 min read
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