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History 8
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar
Bibliographic record
| Board | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar |
|---|---|
| Class | 8 |
| Subject | History |
| Medium | Urdu |
| Curriculum | SNC / NCP 2022 |
| Edition | 2022-23 |
| Approval | DCTE KP letter 3427-30/SNC-2022History(U)/VIII dated 16-07-2022; (c) National Book Foundation |
| Pages | 59 |
| File size | 27.2 MB |
| PDF producer | PDFsharp 1.32.2608-g (www.pdfsharp.net) (Original |
Analysis
The most current history text in the entire corpus and the single most important KP book in the study, which is unfortunate because it is also Urdu-medium and carries the study's largest evidentiary hole. Rebuilt on the 2022 curriculum under a National Book Foundation copyright, it narrates post-1971 civilian politics all the way to the 2022 no-confidence vote, with Bhutto, Zia, Nawaz and Imran all present, plus CPEC, SCO accession and the 2014 APS Peshawar attack. It is also the only Urdu book in the corpus with recoverable institutional civics, including the Senate, the National Assembly, the right to vote and the Eighth Amendment dissolution power, which lifts A2 to 3. Its colonial framing is double-edged. Two absences are editorial rather than OCR artefacts, because the names would survive degraded script: there is no Bacha Khan, no Khudai Khidmatgars and no Qissa Khwani Bazaar in a KP board's own history. The A6 register is explicitly unresolved between bands 3 and 4 and must not be cited either way, and A7 5 is flagged as the weakest score in the gender lens.
Evidence tier
scanned Urdu/Sindhi OCR — theme-grade only. Structure and proper nouns, never wording. Nothing in this book is quoted anywhere in the study.
Measured scores
No lens scored this book individually.
Availability of the book itself
Download this book (PDF, 27.2 MB)
Published by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar, which holds copyright in it. Served here unmodified, without charge and without advertising, to preserve public access to material its publisher distributes free — source links rot and editions are withdrawn, and several in this catalogue already have. This is an archival mirror, not a licence granted by the Board. The Board may have it removed at any time, for any reason, and the removal will be recorded publicly. Verify your copy against the SHA-256 below.
Provenance
| Local file | kptbb-kp/class-8/history-8-ur.pdf |
|---|---|
| Copy retrieved | |
| SHA-256 of the analysed file | 6c711829cd7ea66a56380f4fa3b5fc0d784e208806a6b09e3a6cbee482fe7565 |
| Source | Not recorded for this record. The file is held locally and its bibliographic details are above, but the retrieval URL was not captured — a gap, and it is shown rather than hidden. |
The checksum is of the exact file these findings were computed from, so anyone can prove they hold the same bytes. The retrieval date is when this copy was fetched to the project's own disk, not a formal web-archive capture. Boards and mirrors reprint and reorganise continuously, so a source link may not resolve, and may not serve the same edition if it does. The bibliographic record above — board, class, subject, medium, curriculum, edition, approval reference and page count — is what identifies the book; the link is a convenience. This project does not republish the PDF itself, for the copyright reasons set out in about.
Identifiers and permanent link
| Record ID | kptbb-history-8-ur |
|---|---|
| Permanent link | /books/kptbb-history-8-ur/ |
| This record as data | /books/kptbb-history-8-ur.json · whole dataset |
The record ID is an accession number that happens to be readable. It never changes, even if the metadata encoded in it turns out to be wrong — if this book's board, class, subject or medium is corrected, the correction appears in the fields above and the ID stays as it is. That is the only way a link made today still resolves in ten years. The full rule is in the standards.
Cite this record
kptbb-history-8-ur, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/kptbb-history-8-ur/If you are quoting a passage from the book rather than citing this record, cite the book — the bibliographic details above are what identifies it — and say that you found it here. Two citations, not one.
Challenge this record
If the edition is misidentified, a score does not survive its evidence, the source link is wrong, or a passage is unfairly characterised, that is worth reporting and will be acted on whether or not the correction suits the argument. Corrections are published in the corrections log, never quietly patched. This applies fully to the board that publishes this book: any reply will appear beside the finding it concerns, under the right of reply.