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THE MURDER OF HISTORY
First Published in Pakistan by
Vanguard Books Pvt. Ltd.,
Lahore, Karachi Islamabad.
ISBN : 969-402-126-X (HB)
Text from the back cover of the book:
In Pakistani schools and colleges what is being taught as History.
is really national mythology, and the subjects of Social Studies
and Pakistan Studies are nothing but vehicles of political
indoctrination. our children don't learn History. They are ordered
to read a carefully selected collection of falsehoods, fairy tales
and plain lies. Why and how has this come about? Who is
responsible for it? In what ways is this destroying the country?
Why doesn't anyone protest against it?
In this book, a distinguished Pakistani historian and political
scientist asks and answers these questions for the first time by
making an in-depth study of 66 textbooks on these subjects
currently in use in the schools and colleges of the country. He
(1) lists their errors of fact, emphasis and interpretation, (2)
enumerates their major omissions, (3) corrects their mistakes-,
(4) brings out the distortion they teach and perpetuate. (5)
estimates their ravaging effects on the students, and (6) measures
their impact on the nation at large. He does this with documented
scholarship, meticulous care, deep understanding, acute concern
and rare courage.
This is a stinging but fully deserved attack on the governments
which order and prescribe these textbooks, the scholars and
educationists who plan and approve them, the professors who write
them, and the parents who accept them.
The contents of this book should shake every general reader and
throw every parent into a panic.
Professor, KHURSHEED KAMAL AZIZ was born in December 1927 in
village Ballamabad near Faisalabad, and was educated at the M.B.
High School, Batala, Forman Christian College and the Government
College, Lahore and the Victoria University of Manchester. He has
been on the academic staff of the Government College, Lahore, and
of the Universities of the Punjab, London, Cambridge. Khartoum
and Heidelberg. and has delivered occasional lectures at the
Universities of Karachi, Peshawar, Dacca, Islamabad, Hull,
Newcastle-.upon-Tyne, Geneva, Oxford and Bergen. During intervals
snatched from teaching abroad, he has served at home as Deputy
Official Historian to the Government of Pakistan, Chairman of the
National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research and
Special Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister (Z.A.Bhutto). Author
of over a dozen books, he is a historian of rank with an
international reputation.
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