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The strangest book in the corpus contains no Muslim-rule narrative at all

Sindh's 232-page Social Studies 6 has no early Islam, no Muhammad bin Qasim, no Mughals, no colonial era, no Pakistan Movement and no 1947. History is about 12% of it; civics and economics together are about 40%. The only person given a biographical paragraph is Charles Darwin. Jinnah appears twice, both times as a date exercise. British rule is mentioned once — as a unifier.

The list of what is missing is the finding. Sindh's 232-page Social Studies 6 has no early Islam, no Muhammad bin Qasim, no Mughals, no colonial era, no Pakistan Movement and no 1947. History is about 12% of the book; civics and economics together are about 40%. Jinnah appears twice, both times as a date exercise, and British rule is mentioned once — as a unifier. The only person given a biographical paragraph is Charles Darwin. At 0.3 religious tokens per thousand words across 56,516 words, it is close to secular for a subject that carries the social content.

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Sindh high confidence

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Source

Sindh Social Studies 6, 2016 edition

Sindh Textbook Board, Social Studies 6 (Sindh Curriculum 2015), 232 pp.

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Textbook Evidence Project, “The strangest book in the corpus contains no Muslim-rule narrative at all”. Evidence from 1 textbook (Sindh). Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/sindh-class6-outlier/

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