Social Studies VIII (2022-23)

quotation religion lens A1 = 4 PDF p. 4 English OCR #e01

The book's first sentence of body text, at the head of an astronomy chapter: "Allah Almighty has created this Earth, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets for the benefit of mankind. His creation makes our belief in His existence still stronger" (social-studies-8-en · PAGE 4) — an argument from design; plus Ch.8 Ideology of Pakistan · PAGE 52–59. Register is communal-national, not devotional (0 Quran/Prophet/Hazrat).

quotation history lens A3 = 5 PDF p. 53 English OCR #e03

2 inquiry-verb hits in 39k words; no source criticism. The corpus's most adversarial single chapter (Ch.8, ~8 pp). "Sir Syed Ahmed Khan presented the ideology of Pakistan for the first time due to the biased attitude of the Hindus" (social-studies-8-en · PAGE 53); "the Hindus had no clean heart for the Muslims" (PAGE 55). 1857 as a Muslim war: "the War of Independence, (1857) was the result of strong Muslim feeling of gaining back their lost power" (PAGE 53) — yet also the corpus's sharpest anti-colonial line: "The British called this war a Mutiny and dubbed their enemies as rebels. But this war was the first united effort of the Indians against the British" (PAGE 53). Ends 1947; no Pakistani actor is ever at fault.

quotation othering lens A6 = 5 PDF p. 52 English OCR #e05

The corpus maximum. "The Hindu racists were not only against Muslims but were against all other minorities and even Christians became victims of their atrocities." (p.52) — followed immediately by the trans-historical move: "the present behaviour of Indian Hindus is similar to that they has some on hundred and fifty years ago." [sic] (p.52). Also: "Sir Syed Ahmed Khan presented the ideology of Pakistan for the first time due to the biased attitude of the Hindus" and "Later, Hindu atrocities against the Muslims forced them to promote the ideology of Pakistan" (p.52); "But the Hindus had no clean heart for the Muslims. As a matter of fact the Hindus wanted to get power over the sub-continent after the British left." (p.54); "the policies of Congress convinced the Muslims that it basically wanted to establish the Hindu rule" (p.55).

quotation othering lens A6 = 3 PDF p. 54 English OCR #e06

Graphic historical adversary. "the British took ruthless revenge… They stitched the dead bodies of Muslims in the skin of pig and threw them i[n the] river… The British and Sikh soldiers insultted the women and killed the children." (p.54). Counterweighted by an itemised reform list (councils, universities, railways, police and revenue reform) on the same page, and by "The British called this war a Mutiny and dubbed their enemies as rebels. But this war was the first united effort of the Indians" (p.53).

quotation othering lens A6 = 3 PDF p. 62 English OCR #e07

A Muslim/non-Muslim binary applied to an institution: "the United Nations seems very active in resolving tha problems of non-Muslim nations… It provides a mere lip service to the Muslim nations. If it is the problem of civil war in tiny Rwanda in Africa, it at once dispatches its troops but shows indifference to the killings of innocent Muslims in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir." (p.62)

quotation othering lens A6 = 3 PDF p. 63 English OCR #e08

State-directed, not group-essentialised: "the Israeli extremist zealots tried to burn the Al-Aqsa Mosque" (p.63); a factual Oslo-accords summary follows.

quotation othering lens A6 = 2 PDF p. 52 English OCR #e09

"In this state, non-Muslims have also been guaranteed complete freedom and security. Quaid-i-Azam, time and again, talked about these guarantees to the minorities." (p.52). No section.

quotation gender lens A7 = 4 PDF p. 35 English OCR #e10

A short "Men and Women" equal-opportunity passage inside the population chapter (PAGE 35); elsewhere women appear only as victims — soldiers who "insultted the women" in 1857 (PAGE 54), mass rape in Bosnia and Kashmir (PAGE 62)