Historical-Discursive Decentralization and the Digital Reconstitution of Collective Memory

This chapter advances a re-envisioned paradigm for history education in India by integrating community-based inquiry with digital storytelling as a vehicle for epistemic justice and civic engagement. It interrogates the historiographical, pedagogical, and socio-political imperatives of embedding local histories within global ethical frameworks that is solidarity oriented. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights, the chapter examines structural constraints, from curricular rigidity to infrastructural inequities, and offers policy, institutional, and pedagogical interventions to transform fragmented innovations into systemic practice. By amplifying marginalized voices through ethically grounded digital platforms and cultivating teacher capacity for critical, place-based pedagogy, the chapter positions history education as an active, participatory process that links the ethics of remembering to the imperatives of justice, thus preparing learners as informed local actors and ethically engaged global citizens, capable of confronting historical silences while shaping equitable futures.