Unit 2 The Constitution and Citizenship, pp.40–63, + Unit 5 ch.3, pp.165–172 (~16%): 1973 Constitution and its key principles, separation of powers, Dicey's rule of law, classification of rights (civil/political/economic/social), UDHR 1948, CRC 1989, Article 25-A, civil society "to limit and control the power of the state", a nine-step advocacy method, pupils asked to audit whether their own rights are met
Only one board teaches citizenship as a practice
Sindh teaches government, local government, elections and the media in a democracy at class 6, then the 1973 Constitution, the UDHR, the CRC and civil society at class 7. It is the only board to state civilian control of the armed forces, to teach protest and boycott as legitimate citizen action, and to tell a pupil the voting age and how to register.
Sindh's Social Studies 7 gives roughly a sixth of the book to citizenship — Unit 2 at pp. 40–63 plus pp. 165–172 — covering the 1973 Constitution, separation of powers, Dicey on the rule of law, the UDHR, the CRC, Article 25-A, and civil society as a means “to limit and control the power of the state”, then asks pupils to audit whether their own rights are met. Class 6 sets it up at 3.7 civic tokens per thousand words. Then it stops: by class 8 that civics has gone, the constitutional references are all colonial history, and “human rights” returns zero hits. No other board teaches it at all.
“The basic role of civil society is to limit and control the power of the state.”Sindh Social Studies 7, 2017 edition — PDF p. 40
What the books say
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axis, printed as it stands. Pages marked PDF p. are counted from the first page of the scanned file, which is how most of this corpus was read; pages marked printed p. are the folio printed on the paper. The two differ by however many unnumbered cover leaves a volume carries, so the label matters when you go to check.
3.7/1k with substantial civic content — consistent with this lens's existing finding that Sindh is the only board teaching citizenship as a practice.
What was checked and not found
A claim that one board does something and the others do not is only as good as the search that failed to find it elsewhere. These are those searches.
The civics of its own class-6 and class-7 companions is gone. Constitution/election hits are all colonial constitutional history inside Ch.8 (Govt of India Act 1935, separate electorates). Ch.9 teaches the UN's organs but no rights instrument; "human rights" = 0 hits. One evaluative exercise prompt survives (§5)
Limits
Punjab's split of Social Studies into separate History and Geography books eliminated citizenship education from the middle school entirely — but the split is not the cause: KP's own 2022–23 books score identically and KP never split.
Boards and confidence
Sindh high confidence
Confidence reflects the evidence tier this rests on. High means native or English-medium text verified by exact string match; medium means it depends partly on Urdu-medium material read at theme grade, or on an absence. See the method.
Source
Sindh Social Studies 7, 2017 edition — PDF p. 40; Sindh Social Studies 6, 2016 edition; Sindh Social Studies 8, ~2020-21 reprint edition
The civilian-control-of-the-armed-forces statement is at printed p. 60 of Social Studies 7.
Cite this finding
Textbook Evidence Project, “Only one board teaches citizenship as a practice”. Evidence from 3 textbooks (Sindh). Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/civics-sindh-monopoly/
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Related findings
The same event, taught two opposite ways, in the same school year
Inquiry
1971 is narrated three different ways, and only one board names the surrender
History
One explanation for 1971 survives in every board across twenty years of editions
Othering
No woman appears as an agent of knowledge anywhere in the corpus
Gender