Nationalism in The History Textbooks in The first Pahlavid Period

Without a doubt educational system is one of the most important pillars of every society. Although it influences other societal systems, at the same time it is also under influence of them. With the goal of modernization of country, first Pahlavid government also paid attention to it. Since each political system has its characteristics, one of the main characteristics of the Pahlavi 1st’s era was nationalism, which in this period appeared in the shape of, “Patriotism”, “worship of the king”, and “Attention to the Arian race and archaism”. In this era Patriotism was linked closely with worship of king and archaism and influenced different sections of the society such as educational system, especially in the form of textbooks compilation. This article has based its research on fomation of the nationalism phenomena on history textbooks, particularly in elementary schools, and tries to answer the question on, how nationalism influenced the contents of history textbooks in this period. The answer is searched in “archaism”, “worship of king”, and “Patriotism” as manifestation of nationalism in history textbooks.