In the last decade or more, several initiatives of public history have emerged around the globe. In India, althrough many such initiatives exist, the proliferation of public history initiatives is remarkable in the last 2-3 decades. This is an attempt to chronicle some public history initiatives in India.
Directory of Public History Resources
Sahapedia is an open encyclopedic resource on the arts, cultures and histories of India. Sahapedia offers digital content in multimedia format—articles and books, photo essays and video, interviews and oral histories, maps and timelines, authored by scholars and curated by experts. Subject areas range from ideas and belief systems, rituals and practices, to visual and performing arts. Culture, Performing Arts, Visual Arts.
This repository was set up as an open-access, multimodal, collaborative, international archive of schoolbooks and artefacts related to school education; by Azim Premji Univeristy, Bangalore.
The Long Emergency Collection was primarily conceived as a series of oral history interviews documenting journalistic praxis around the time of the Indian emergency (1975-1977).
This site is intended for use by middle and high school teachers and students in connection with the surveys of world history, geography and cultures covering different eras of world history, have a repository of maps and lesson plans for an overall introduction to the Indian Ocean World. The initiative is hosted by Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, US.
Ektara is a video magazine on history and arts. The magazine is run by…
Stories from the Margins.
Set up by UNESCO, this website is an initiative to better understand the rich history and shared legacy of the historic Silk Roads, and the ways in which cultures have mutually influenced each other. In light of the enduring legacy of the Silk Roads in connecting civilizations throughout history, the UNESCO Silk Roads Programme revives and extends these historic networks in a digital space, bringing people together in an ongoing dialogue and fostering a mutual understanding of the diverse and often inter-related cultures that have sprung up around these routes.
