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History SNC 2023-24 Class 6
Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore
Bibliographic record
| Board | Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, Lahore |
|---|---|
| Class | 6 |
| Subject | History |
| Medium | English |
| Curriculum | SNC 2022 |
| Edition | 2022-23 |
| Approval | Single National Curriculum 2022, Experimental Edition |
| Pages | 104 |
| File size | 84.4 MB |
| PDF producer | Corel PDF Engine Version 24.4.0.636 |
Analysis
Four chapters, 104 pages, and it stops at roughly 661 CE: Ancient Civilizations (pp.3-39), Persian, Greek and Roman (pp.40-58), Aryans, Kushans and Guptas (pp.59-80), Rise of Islamic Civilization (pp.81-102). There are zero occurrences of Mughal, British, colonial, Quaid, 1947, Pakistan Movement, Two-Nation or Sir Syed - the national narrative is deferred wholly out of this grade, which is why no A4 is scored. The distinctive feature is the "Hazrat cliff": all 180 "Hazrat" tokens sit inside the final 24 pages, which are functionally an Islamiyat chapter asserting revelation and the Mi'raj as fact - hence A1 4. That chapter is also the only one with no source-criticism apparatus in a book that opens by teaching primary versus secondary sources (PAGE 5), and A3 3 turns on that withdrawal plus the activity asking pupils to "Justify that Indus Valley people... were easily defeated by Aryans" (PAGE 30), thirty pages before the text hedges the invasion thesis (p.61). A6 is split 2/3: Hinduism is never named as a religion, while Aryans are taught as "a white race" (p.60). A7 5 - fifteen female against 249 male tokens, no woman named.
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.
Evidence recorded 1
Three kinds, deliberately styled apart. A quotation is verbatim wording and is only ever taken from English-medium text. An observation describes structure or theme — the only kind permitted for Urdu and Sindhi material, which this project never quotes. An absence is a negative result: a probe was run and returned nothing, which is the weakest claim made anywhere on this site.
observation religion lens A1 = 5 English OCR #e01
Every passage recorded for this book is shown above — nothing is withheld or truncated. Each item has a permanent anchor, so a single piece of evidence can be linked and disputed on its own.
Findings that cite this book 1
Inquiryhigh confidence
Punjab's class-6 history instructs pupils to prove a contested theory; Sindh's class-6 social studies tells them most historians reject it. Both are current books, and both are an eleven-year-old's first encounter with how history is decided.
Counter-evidence, at equal prominence: Sindh Textbook Board, Social Studies 6 (Sindh Curriculum 2015), printed p. 46: "But most historians do not believe this theory as there is no evidence of war or mass killings."
A finding states and cites; it does not argue. The argument is in the studies. Where a finding has counter-evidence it is printed above, in the same block, because a finding that hides its counter-evidence is a worse finding rather than a stronger one.
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Provenance
| Local file | pctb-punjab/class-6/history-6-en.pdf |
|---|---|
| Copy retrieved | |
| SHA-256 of the analysed file | b546ff36a0cce26e8433b19cd5a4f965975ee345eea58f4466ee599154b903eb |
| Source | https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1VhVINAr69UPAtnh3h7Ddt_KoHAidCY_4 |
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Identifiers and permanent link
| Record ID | pctb-history-6-en |
|---|---|
| Permanent link | /books/pctb-history-6-en/ |
| This record as data | /books/pctb-history-6-en.json · whole dataset |
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