Overview / Findings / Othering
No board explicitly links the idolaters of Makkah to Hindu practice. Punjab's History 6 does place a reductive account of Vedic worship and the Prophet's destruction of the Kaaba idols in consecutive chapters at age eleven, but reserves the words "idols", "false gods" and "infidels" strictly for Makkah. The tightest vocabulary link in the corpus is in Sindh — the board that scores most secular overall.
The link a reader might expect is not made: no board tells pupils that the idolaters of Makkah resemble Hindu practice. Punjab's History 6 comes closest by adjacency — a reductive account of Vedic worship sits in the chapter before the destruction of the Kaaba idols, at age eleven — but it reserves “idols”, “false gods” and “infidels” strictly for Makkah, and never names Hinduism. KP's History 6 does the opposite, describing each religion sympathetically with its festivals and setting them in a comparative table (pp. 34–35). No English-medium book in the corpus narrates the destruction of a single temple in Hindustan. The tightest vocabulary link that does exist is in Sindh — the board scoring most secular overall.
Each entry below is the catalogue's own record for that book on that
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.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa History 6 (Urdu)
Each described sympathetically with its festivals, plus an explicit comparative table (pp.34–35). Theme-grade; the structure (a named comparative table) survives OCR, the wording does not. Direct inverse of Punjab History 6, which never names Hinduism.
No English-medium textbook in the corpus narrates the destruction of a single temple in Hindustan.
PunjabSindhKhyber Pakhtunkhwa medium 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.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa History 6 (Urdu medium), 2021-22 edition — PDF p. 34
Two citations are appropriate here, not one. The line above cites this finding. If you are quoting the textbook passage itself, cite the book — its full bibliographic record, edition and approval reference is on its own page, linked from each evidence entry above — and say that you found it here.
This is a claim about a printed book, so it is checkable, and it should be checked. If the citation is wrong, the edition is misidentified, the passage is quoted unfairly, or the finding does not survive its own evidence, that is worth reporting and it will be acted on whether or not the correction is convenient for the argument. Corrections are logged publicly in the corrections log; this applies fully to the boards themselves.
