textbook wars
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Pakistan; Myths and Consequences
In a 2013 essay reposted as written, Omar Ali argues that Pakistan was insufficiently imagined before birth, that its establishment’s founding mythology proved self-destructive, and that it must be corrected…
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NCERT Books – Early Muslim invaders
Reviewing how Satish Chandra’s, Romila Thapar’s and NIOS history textbooks treat pre-Delhi Sultanate Muslim invaders, the author argues Hindutva criticism of these left-liberal historians is often overstated and straw-manned, and…
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Indian Textbooks, Fascism, Western (liberal) Gaze..
Embeds Alex Traub’s tweet announcing his report, now outside the paywall, on Indian textbooks that he says question democracy, celebrate violence and stoke communal tensions.
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Toxic textbooks and social engineering in Pakistan
A piece originally published at Naya Daur, citing K. K. Aziz’s The Murder of History, argues that Pakistani history and social-studies textbooks are an instrument of social engineering, and that…
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RSS Led by Modi in Charge of India, Part II: Domestic Policy
In a series on the Modi government, the post reads domestic policy from RSS views, the Gujarat model and the BJP manifesto, expecting rewritten school history texts that dilute Congress…
