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Lall, Marie – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
In states that are diverse, issues of national identity formation and who belongs and how they belong can, and often do, change over time. This article analyses how education was used as a tool to artificially create antagonistic national identities based on religious and ethnic definitions of who was Indian or Pakistani. It focuses in particular…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Textbook Content, Nationalism, Textbooks