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Partition violence is absent from every book in the study

No massacres, no trains, no abductions, in any direction, in any board. Migration appears as a logistical and rehabilitation challenge.

Search every history and social-studies volume in the corpus for the vocabulary of 1947 — massacre, convoy, train, abduction, recovery — and it is not there, in any direction, in any board. What remains is migration as an administrative event: numbers arriving, camps, rehabilitation, resettlement. No board blames the other community for killings, which also means no board records its own. The silence is symmetrical, and it is the largest single omission the study found.

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 a corpus-wide search for massacre, train, abduction and recovery vocabulary. There is no single page to quote, which is why none is quoted here.

Boards and confidence

PunjabSindhKhyber Pakhtunkhwa 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

A corpus-wide search of every history and social-studies volume for the vocabulary of 1947 violence

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Textbook Evidence Project, “Partition violence is absent from every book in the study”. A corpus-wide search of every history and social-studies volume for the vocabulary of 1947 violence. Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/partition-violence-absent/

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