History, class 7

Class 7 is where these two boards diverge most violently, and the difference is subject matter, not tone. Punjab's five SNC chapters spend roughly forty pages in medieval and early-modern Europe — the Middle Ages, then Renaissance and Enlightenment — around a middle section on the Umayyads, Abbasids, Crusades, Delhi Sultanate and Mughals. KP's five Urdu chapters are strictly 1526 to 1857 and roughly ninety-five per cent subcontinental, with no world-Islamic history whatsoever. The two spend the same year in different centuries and different continents. Vintage is confounded, Punjab SNC-2022 against a KP 2006-curriculum reprint, and again it does not explain the split. Both score A1 3 and A4 4, but differently. Punjab's register is dynastic rather than devotional — six "Hazrat" in 106 pages — with the asymmetry sitting in motive: Ghori invaded because "Being a Muslim, he might like to conquer the Hindus of India and spread Islam in that country" (p.61), while Mahmud of Ghazni's seventeen invasions get purely political motives and Somnath is omitted, and the Crusaders' motive is "mixed with other worldly motives such as greed, loot, and plunder" (p.54) against a voluntarist account of Muslim expansion (p.32). KP's A4 4 comes from 1857 taught as a War of Independence whose aftermath is framed as targeted persecution of Muslims. Its distinctive feature is a Pashtun thread: Sher Shah Suri at admiring length, Ahmad Shah Abdali honoured as founder of an independent Afghanistan, Khushal Khan Khattak and Rahman Baba named as the great poets of the era, Balakot and Nowshera. On gender Punjab scores 5, twelve female against 480 male tokens with Noor Jahan the only woman profiled; KP scores 3 on a long treatment of Nur Jahan as political actor. All KP claims are theme-grade Urdu OCR. Punjab sanitises Mahmud of Ghazni's temple raids out of the book entirely; the Urdu-medium KP text itemises Somnath and still calls him a patron of Firdausi and Al-Biruni.