1. ITIHAAS
INDIAN TRADITIONS AND HERITAGE SOCIETY

2. What is ITIHAAS?
An educational trust, established in 2004,
registered under the Indian Trusts Act 1832 (Act XXI of
1882)
Active in the area of heritage education; engaging with
students, teachers and curriculum
Bringing wisdom of the past into the purview of formal
education
Helping them connect to their roots through stories
and experiences: reviving the tradition of kissagoi

3. What we do

8. Things that make ITIHAAS unique
Conceived as a self-sustaining model
- Cross Subsidy Model
- Leverage of Grants and event sponsorships
Massive Outreach and Singular attention at the same time
- Strong pedagogy combined with innovation in production enable
ITIHAAS to reach out to large groups at a time while ensuring impact in
heterogeneous group
- Strategic collaborations with authorities (ASI, MoC, MUD, NMML,
GSDS etc) facilitates reaching out to large numbers
- Ground level relationships with local resource persons, and trust

9. continued…
Potential for scale up and broad-basing across the country
- ITIHAAS Model is replicable in almost all cities across the
country as it allows infinite scope for regional flavour, culture,
language etc
- The approach uses city as a resource and building a
relationship
Unique Pedagogy
What makes ITIHAAS Programmes a hit with over 50 Partner schools?
- Learning outside the confines of Classroom
- Connecting with curriculum
- Interdisciplinary and interaction based learning
- catering to all kinds of learning needs

10. Continued…
Field Shaper and Inspiration for other initiatives
ITIHAAS has pioneered in the field of heritage education
- Created the atmosphere of HE now taken up by many orgs.
- Empowered hundreds of teachers to change the way they
reach out to their learners
- Govt. launched schemes and programmes following ITIHAAS…
- Undertaken first ever ground level study of HE
- Forged cross-discipline links between policy makers,
corporate sector, craftsmen to benefit ‘the child’
Resource people are our community

11. Why ITIHAAS?
• To work with schools to bridge the gaps in the
understanding of field situations and
curriculum.
• To use stories to create learning.
• Connecting students to a cultural sensitization
of their own city
• Monuments as inter disciplinary classrooms
• To create a sense of pride amongst the local
people...carriers of heritage

12. Our solution:
• To work with students, teachers, educators
and create an atmosphere for Heritage
education in the country
• Taking students on walks.
• Developing other activities centered around
heritage education.

13. Our Impact:
• ITIHAAS has integrated heritage
understanding into several schools.
• Brought students out of schools into
monuments and other spaces of learning
• Been an inspiration for several other
programmes.

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