History

Six books, and only two boards. Punjab publishes History 6, 7 and 8 in English; KP publishes History 6, 7 and 8 in Urdu; Sindh has no History textbook at all, folding the material into its integrated Social Studies. Every board comparison in this subject is therefore Punjab against KP, and half of it rests on theme-grade Nastaliq OCR.

The two boards do not teach the same past. Punjab's class-6 book stops at roughly 661 CE — zero occurrences of Mughal, British, colonial, Quaid, 1947, Pakistan Movement, Two-Nation or Sir Syed — and spends class 7 with about forty pages in medieval Europe, the corpus's only substantial world history at this level. KP's class 6 runs 2500 BC to 1526, so a KP eleven-year-old meets Muhammad bin Qasim and the Delhi Sultanate while a Punjabi eleven-year-old meets Mesopotamia and the Rashidun caliphs; KP's class 7 is strictly 1526 to 1857 with no world-Islamic history whatsoever, threaded with a Pashtun line — Sher Shah Suri, Ahmad Shah Abdali, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba, Balakot, Nowshera. Both boards then deliver the whole colonial-to-Pakistan narrative in a single class-8 volume, but Punjab's leaps from 1971 to the Afghan War and six named army operations ending at Radd-ul-Fassad 2017, while KP's runs post-1971 civilian politics through to the 2022 no-confidence vote, making it the most current history text in the corpus.

The scored picture turns on two axes. A3 shows inquiry taught and then withdrawn: Punjab's History 6 opens by teaching primary versus secondary sources and closes with the one chapter — Rise of Islamic Civilization — carrying no source apparatus at all and all 180 of the book's "Hazrat" tokens. The same book offers three competing theories for the Indus Valley's end and, in the same activity box, instructs pupils to "Justify that Indus Valley people... were easily defeated by Aryans"; History 8, with zero occurrences of "primary source", asks them to "debate to conclude" the Two-Nation Theory. A4 is where the boards separate, and it survives vintage matching: Punjab History 8 (SNC 2022) scores 5 against KP History 8 (2022-23) at 3. Punjab runs the newest books in the corpus and produces the most closed narrative in it.

Two findings invert expectations. Punjab's History 6 never names Hinduism as a religion, while KP's Urdu History 6 gives Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism sympathetic parallel treatment with an explicit comparison table. And Punjab omits Somnath and the idol-breaker epithet entirely, giving Mahmud of Ghazni purely political motives, while KP itemises the 1025 raid and simultaneously credits his patronage of Firdausi and Al-Biruni — the most communal Mahmud in the corpus is in the Urdu KP book, the most sanitised in the SNC Punjab one. Punjab History 8 is nonetheless band 4 on Hindus, with "Hindus' mentality was exposed" and Hindus supplied as a cause of the 1965 war, while carrying twenty pages later a warm two-page section honouring Christian, Sikh, Parsi and scheduled-caste supporters of Pakistan.

Absent from every volume: Partition violence, any economic critique of colonialism, and each board's own provincial history — no Sikh period or colonial Punjab in Punjab's books, and no Bacha Khan, Khudai Khidmatgars or Qissa Khwani Bazaar recovered from KP's own class-8 History, though that last is recorded as not established rather than absent, because Nastaliq zero counts are unsafe. History as a named subject ends at class 8 in both boards, its material continuing as Pakistan Studies at 9 and 10, so there is no class-10 History gap. Confidence: high for Punjab, whose class-8 volume is native digital text; low for all three KP volumes. KP History 8 is the single largest evidentiary hole in the study — it carries KP's entire colonial and Pakistan-Movement narrative at a register nobody can resolve from this scan.