School of Social Sciences

This paper explained how rationality prevents human beings from acknowledging coincidence to be a decisive factor. With examples of cases from popular culture, one can argue that education is the pathway to provide safeguards against deception.

The National Curricular Framework 2005, among some of the major curricular documents worldwide, proposes one of the main goals of Social Studies Education to develop students' ability to think and act independently. The “Social and Political Life” textbooks by NCERT also motivate teachers to posit the school as a microcosm of society, demanding similar kinds of dialogic spaces.

This paper aims to explore how textbooks have represented the modern history of the subcontinent and the rise of nationalism in the textbooks in India and Pakistan.