Overview / Findings / Othering
The sati parallel is not in today's textbooks — but was documented in the 1990s
Across all 112 scored books there are zero genuine occurrences of sati. No book attributes female infanticide to India or Hindus; every "buried alive" in the corpus has Arabia as its subject. But a 1995 Punjab textbook, quoted in published scholarship, stated that "The religion of the Hindus did not teach them good things — Hindus did not respect women."
Search all 112 scored books and there are zero genuine occurrences of sati. No book attributes female infanticide to India or to Hindus; every “buried alive” in the corpus has pre-Islamic Arabia as its subject. That matters because the frame did exist: a 1995 Punjab textbook, quoted in published scholarship, taught that “The religion of the Hindus did not teach them good things — Hindus did not respect women.” Something present in the 1990s and gone now is a finding about curricular change, and it is the reason this project keeps a historical layer at all.
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 across all scored books. There is no single page to quote, which is why none is quoted here.
Limits
A frame present in the 1990s and absent now is a finding about curricular change, and it is why the historical layer matters.
Boards and confidence
PunjabSindhKhyber PakhtunkhwaBalochistan 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 across all 112 scored books; and A.H. Nayyar & Ahmed Salim (eds), The Subtle Subversion (SDPI, 2003)
Also cited
A.H. Nayyar & Ahmed Salim (eds), <em>The Subtle Subversion: The State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan</em> (Islamabad: SDPI, 2003).
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