"It appears that Pakistani public school textbooks were not written to serve the pedagogical imperatives of intellectual development and the inculcation of critical thinking. Rather, they were written to perpetually justify a divisive ideology of rupture which had to be continually reiterated in the construction of national memory."
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Rubina Saigol, ‘Textbooks: An Education in Demonology’, India Today, 11 August 2012, at http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rubina-saigol-pakistani-textbooks-divisive-ideology- muslims-are-always-heroic-and-hindus-invariably-diabolical/1/212833.html (Accessed 23 December 2012). also quoted in Behuria: Partition of History in Textbooks in Pakistan: Implications of Selective Memory and Forgetting
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