This lecture was delivered as part of the 6th annual History for Peace conference titled 'The Idea of Democracy' which was hosted in...

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

Mridu Rai is the author of the prizewinning book Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir.

Rajeev Bhargava is Professor at CSDS, Delhi and currently, Director of the Centre’s Institute of Indian Thought.

After working as director of Leap Years, Sohail Hashmi started his heritage walks, writing on Delhi and around culture, language communalism

We landed in Chandigarh on May Day, on the eve of the two-day history teaching conference we had organized, to be hosted by Saint Kabir...