Historians and academicians from India and Pakistan will join hands to write the sub-continent's pre-partition history to help erase misconceptions among the people, a Pakistani historian says.

"Historians will get together, exchange information and come up with textbooks that give factual history of India and Pakistan," Pakistani historian and writer Hamida Khuhro told here.

She was speaking at the end of a two-day India-Pakistan conference organized by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

At the meet, experts from both countries agreed that their textbooks were not true to their shared history before 1947. Their recommendations will be submitted to the two governments.

Khuhro said: "Our history will be written with adequate research and authority, so it can become a reference point for future generations."

Added Indian academician Veena Majumdar: "We had a very fruitful and wide-ranging discussion. We hope something concrete will come out of it in the form of objective documentations."

A conference document, which cited education as the most effective agent of change, sought a partnership between India and Pakistan to develop a shared perspective for comparative collaborative research.

"There is a need to identify the sources of misconception, misunderstandings, stereotyping of different sections of our people in educational textbooks and their removal to bring about correct appreciation and understanding," it said.

Participants at the conference also sought free flow of information, research papers, movies, journals, books and children's literature between India and Pakistan.