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Handmaidens of History? Exploring English, Hindi and Sanskrit Textbooks for Schools
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Roy, Kumkum – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2017
The article explores the ways in which concerns of history, in terms of content, concepts and methodology, find space or do not find space within textbooks used for teaching languages. These may be more important as sites of "knowledge" than social science books, because the latter are often regarded as insignificant within the formal…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Indo European Languages, Middle Class