History, class 6

The two boards that split History from Geography teach two different pasts at class 6. Punjab's four SNC chapters stop at roughly 661 CE: Ancient Civilizations, Persian/Greek/Roman, Aryans/Kushans/Guptas, Rise of Islamic Civilization. There are zero occurrences of Mughal, British, colonial, Quaid, 1947, Pakistan Movement, Two-Nation or Sir Syed. KP's Urdu volume covers 2500 BC to 1526 AD in five chapters, reaching the Delhi Sultanate and closing on Sufism. Vintage is confounded — Punjab SNC-2022 against a KP book printed 2021-22 under a curriculum letter dated 7 December 2010 — and it cuts against the expected direction on religion. Punjab scores A1 4 on the "Hazrat cliff": all 180 "Hazrat" tokens sit in the final 24 pages, which function as an Islamiyat chapter asserting revelation and the Mi'raj as fact, and which is the only chapter with no source-criticism apparatus in a book that opens by teaching primary versus secondary sources (PAGE 5). KP also scores 4, but for a different reason — a whole final chapter teaching tasawwuf as religion plus a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat declaration page — while its pre-Islamic chapters describe Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism sympathetically with their festivals and an explicit comparative table (pp.34–35). Punjab never names Hinduism as a religion at all, and teaches the Aryans as "a white race" (p.60), with an activity asking pupils to "Justify that Indus Valley people... were easily defeated by Aryans" (PAGE 30). Punjab's A7 is 5 with no woman named in the book; KP's is 3, on a sympathetic full treatment of Razia Sultana whose fall is blamed on the nobles' refusal to accept a woman ruler. KP's material is Urdu OCR throughout, so its structure is established and its register is not, and its A2 of 5 is a pure absence claim. The Urdu-medium book from the older curriculum is the one that names Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and gives a woman ruler her due.