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No board teaches its own province's history

No Sikh-era or colonial Punjab in the Punjab books. No 1843 annexation, no Talpurs, not even the Indus Valley as a topic in Sindh's Social Studies 7 and 8. No Bacha Khan, no Khudai Khidmatgars and no Qissa Khwani in KP's class-8 History.

Each board omits the history of the province it serves. Punjab's books contain no Sikh-era or colonial Punjab. Sindh's Social Studies 7 and 8 do not treat the 1843 annexation or the Talpurs — and do not even carry the Indus Valley as a topic, though it lies within the province. KP's class-8 History has no Bacha Khan, no Khudai Khidmatgars, no Qissa Khwani. The national story crowds out the local one everywhere, with the same shape in every province. The KP portion rests partly on Urdu OCR and is recorded as not established rather than as proven absent.

What this rests on

This finding is not a reading of one passage. It is a property of the corpus as a whole, computed from the chapter lists of every history and social-studies book in the corpus. There is no single page to quote, which is why none is quoted here.

Limits

The KP absence rests partly on Urdu OCR and is recorded as not established rather than absent.

Boards and confidence

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.

Source

The chapter lists of every history and social-studies volume in the corpus

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Textbook Evidence Project, “No board teaches its own province's history”. The chapter lists of every history and social-studies volume in the corpus. Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/no-board-teaches-own-province/

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