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Occlusive Narratives: School Textbooks and National Identities

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This paper examines the intersectionality between education, national identity formation, and race relations. It argues that the exclusion of the socio-cultural and political narratives of the people of North-East India from the dominant nationalised school textbooks has had serious consequences, particularly in shaping the identity of North-Eastern Indians.