https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/4514 Mon, 18 May 2026 05:10:48 GMT 2026-05-18T05:10:48Z https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/5164 Title: Book history and textbooks in early colonial Bengal Author(s): Azim Premji University Abstract: Abhijit Gupta is a Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He co-edited the following four volumes that helped define book history as a field in India: Print Areas (2004), Moveable Types (2008), New Word Order (2011), and Founts of Knowledge (2015). He was an associate editor for South Asia for the Oxford Companion to the Book (2010). This is the second in a series of interviews on the development, production, and use of schoolbooks in India in the last 200 years. These events are a part of activities related to the soon-to-be-launched Schoolbooks Archive Portal, a project of the Knowledge Resource Centre, Azim Premji Foundation Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/5164 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/5161 Title: Science textbooks in nineteenth century Madras presidency Abstract: Dr T V Venkateswaran is a senior scientist at Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi. He has written about, in a series of essays, science textbooks for schools, and popular science books published in Tamil in the nineteenth-century Madras Presidency. This is the first in a series of interviews on the development, production, and use of schoolbooks in India in the last 200 years. These events are a part of activities related to the soon-to-be-launched Schoolbooks Archive Portal, a project of the Knowledge Resource Centre, Azim Premji Foundation. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/5161 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/6440 Title: Launch of Schoolbooks Archive Author(s): Azim Premji University, Bengaluru Abstract: Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, invites you to the launch of Schoolbooks Archive, a free, open-access online portal for schoolbooks and related documents that have been developed and used in India and the subcontinent over the last two hundred years, in different languages and on different subjects. Tue, 13 May 0021 00:00:00 GMT https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/6440 0021-05-13T00:00:00Z https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/5165 Title: The state and textbook development processes in India Author(s): Azim Premji University Abstract: C N Subramaniam studied history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, obtaining his M Phil degree with a dissertation on the history of agriculture in medieval South India. He taught history at Delhi University for a short while, before joining Eklavya, Bhopal, in 1984, where he was also the Director. He has written widely on several aspects of school education, especially on curriculum and textbooks for social sciences, and he has participated in several national and state-level curriculum and textbook development exercises. This is the third in a series of interviews on the development, production, and use of schoolbooks in India in the last 200 years. These events are a part of activities related to the soon-to-be-launched Schoolbooks Archive Portal, a project of the Knowledge Resource Centre, Azim Premji Foundation. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://schoolbooksarchive.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/handle/20.500.12497/5165 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z