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This document provides an analysis of textbooks used in West Bengal, India. It examines how concepts of nation, gender, and history are portrayed. The analysis finds that the nation is constructed as primarily Bengali and focused on the independence movement. Women are largely absent from histories of the national struggle and depicted as assistants to men. While some efforts are made to include marginalized groups, the perspectives generally remain bourgeois. Rural Bengal is feminized but women are not gra

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TAHSIN59

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