Images in textbooks, its use and politics around it.

What is it about?

The article discusses a few different experiences of collecting images for school textbooks in the Indian context. The attempt is to explain the challenges in including different types of images in textbooks. Textbooks were often dominated by written material and not images. When you include different types of images how does it become important to the context of political science (or civics) and more broadly to the social science context

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Why is it important?

There are numerous ways in which the state regulates content for the children in the classroom. It was not until recently textbooks printed by the state included a variety or diverse genre of images. Article highlight the need to understand its political context.