IS HISTORY GENDERED? : A GLIMPSE FROM HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

While there is so much to discuss about the nature of history portrayed in the school textbooks and the implications it follows, the present paper focuses on the scope of gender neutrality in history textbooks at school level. The larger aim of the paper is to critically analyze the content of history textbook from the gender perspective: whether the history that we study today is gender neutral or is it biased against a particular gender? The paper aims to on to find out the presence of women in history textbooks at schools.