Hum Hindustani is a research project on children and citizenship examined through the ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity, guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution of India. It is part of the TESF India network that seeks to develop a better understanding of how education systems can be transformed to support sustainable development. Hum Hindustani focusses on children from Grades 6-9 at 3 sites – Shaheen Bagh in Delhi that was a site of a citizens’ protest, rural Firozpur in Punjab that was active in the Farmers’ Protests, and Kitab Mahal, a library catering to Dalit and Muslim children in Govandi. The sites provide a range of experiences and identities that throw up questions about the relationship between existing state policy and complex everyday life. The project uses a combination of arts-based exercises, done in collaboration with children to draw out their responses, as well as documentary interviews with the children and some adults.


The resources on this website are free to use in classrooms and elsewhere for non-commercial purposes with due credit being given to the project.