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How to teach history

Professor Krishna Kumar's book explores the practical challenges of teaching history within the constraints of timetables and textbooks

Learning to Live with the Past
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Learning to Live with the Past

Chintan Girish Modi
Learning to Live with the Past
Author: Krishna Kumar
Publisher: Seagull Books
Pages: 80
Price: Rs 299

“The use of social sciences in education is a conscious effort to create loyal citizens who are proud of their nation. This is especially true in modern nation-states, where the state takes charge of education and uses it as a tool for acculturation and socialisation,” writes Professor Krishna Kumar in his latest book Learning to Live with the Past, which contains revised transcripts of two lectures delivered before an audience of history teachers in 2018 and 2019.

The school curriculum is assigned the task of building a national

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