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Geography SNC 2023-24 Class 6
Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore
Bibliographic record
| Board | Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore |
|---|---|
| Class | 6 |
| Subject | Geography |
| Medium | English |
| Curriculum | SNC 2022 |
| Edition | 2022-23 |
| Approval | Single National Curriculum 2022, Experimental Edition |
| Pages | 89 |
| File size | 20.5 MB |
| PDF producer | Foxit PhantomPDF Printer Version 9.7.0.2220 |
Analysis
Six units of overwhelmingly physical geography (rocks, mountains, climatic regions, forests, natural disasters, changing earth), printed 1 March 2022, with a strong technical strand on GIS, remote sensing, GPS and cartography (pp.19-20) and current climate content - the 2022 floods attributed to global warming and Karachi heat waves (p.69). There is no population or demography unit at all, a silence it shares with Punjab Geography 8, while KP and Sindh both teach demography. Religiously it is as secular as anything in the corpus: a bismillah on PAGE 1 and zero hits for Quran, Prophet or Hazrat, hence A1 1; A2 is 5 because the only "Constitution" occurrences are the AJK map disclaimer. The A6 of 4 rests entirely on one unit, which reproduces colonial racial ethnography as present-tense fact - "Wild people with small height lives in Congo. People are uncivilized", Amazonians "known as Red Indians", Arctic peoples "Eskimos" (pp.39-42) - and then recycles it as an examinable MCQ whose distractors are "a. Pathan b. Red Indians c. Eskimos d. African" (p.47). Do not generalise that passage to the board's register; the rest of the book is technocratic.
Evidence tier
scanned English OCR — quotation permitted after re-verification by exact string match.
Measured scores
Axes not listed were not scored for this book — coverage is uneven by design. All axes run 1–5, where 1 is the secular/pluralist/open pole. See the method.
Findings that cite this book 1
Contenthigh confidence
A Punjab geography book printed in March 2022, under the Single National Curriculum, describes equatorial peoples in nineteenth-century racial language — and returns to the material in a multiple-choice question eight pages later.
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Provenance
| Local file | pctb-punjab/class-6/geography-6-en.pdf |
|---|---|
| Copy retrieved | |
| SHA-256 of the analysed file | 4660b5187d1119b6ab39ec319e21cc0bf259292c84e58e34f9634ab790f11dc0 |
| Source | https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1OyJ19YeWpIFt6zjhTrLopJdtZVp2Wd0C |
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Identifiers and permanent link
| Record ID | pctb-geography-6-en |
|---|---|
| Permanent link | /books/pctb-geography-6-en/ |
| This record as data | /books/pctb-geography-6-en.json · whole dataset |
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