London. He has delivered several memorial lectures, including the Gladwyn lecture in the House of Lords. He was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship to examine the history textbooks of India and Pakistan. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the President of India in 2011. The same year, the Institute of Education, University of London, awarded him an Honorary D.Litt. in Education. From 2004 to 2010, Prof Kumar served as the Director of National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Delhi. National Curricular Framework (2005), one of the significant documents pertaining of elementary education in the past decade, was prepared under his leadership along with position papers on key issues on Education. This was followed by revision of NCERT textbooks from grade I to XII which created through unprecedented collaboration between large number of academicians, practitioners, teachers, teacher educators. He was also instrumental in setting up Reading Cell, to focus on issues of early literacy in Indian classrooms. Publications Books in English: Social Character of Learning (Sage, 1989). Political Agenda of Education (Sage, 1991). Retitled Politics of Education in Colonial India (Routledge, 2014). What is Worth Teaching (Orient Longman, 1992; revised, 1997; 3rd ed. 2004).. Learning from Conflict (Orient Longman, 1996). The Child’s Language and the Teacher (National Book Trust, 2000). Translated into Hindi, Maithili, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan and Kannada). Prejudice and Pride (Viking/Penguin, 2001). Translated into Hindi and published by Rajkamal. Education, Conflict and Peace (Orient Blackswan, 2016). Battle for Peace (Penguin, 2007). Translated into Hindi and published by Rajkamal. A Pedagogue’s Romance: Reflections on Schooling (Oxford University Press, 2008). Edited volumes: Sociological Perspective on Education (co-editor S. Shukla; Chankya, 1984). Democracy and Education in India (Radiant and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 1990). Social Change and Education in South Asia (co-editor, Joachim Oesterheld; Orient Longman, 2007). Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship (co-editor, Edward Vickers; Routledge, 2015). Routledge Handbook of Education in India (2017). Rethinking Schooling (Report on curriculum policies in 21 Asian countries, drafted by a committee chaired by Krishna Kumar), MGIEP Unesco, New Delhi, 2017. Books in Hindi: Neelee Ankhon Wale Bagule (short story collection; Shabdakar, 1976). Raj, Samaj aur Shiksha (Rajkamal: 1991). Abdul Majeed ka chhura (travel essays; Kitabghar, 1995). Vichar ka Dar (Essays; Rajkamal, 1996). School ki Hindi (‘School’s Hindi’; Rajkamal, 1998). Shiksha aur Gyan (‘Education and Knowledge; Granthshilpi, 1999) Raghuvir Sahay Reader (Edited; Rajkamal and Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, 2000). Deevar ka