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For learners from linguistically disadvantaged groups, English has to be negotiated through an unfamiliar dominant language. In this article, I argue that appropriate inclusivity self-checks at the predevelopment stage of materials preparation can contribute effectively to the development of culturally responsive English language teaching materials. Using the Steinhardt NYU Metro Center’s Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard and the Fairness, Bias, and CulturalResponsiveness Checklist of the Centre for Collaborative Education, Indiana University, I examine whether, and to what extent, a set of state-mandated English textbooks reflect culturally responsive and inclusive pedagogy as a response to the English language needs of multilingual, multicultural learners in India. The study shows that by using appropriate selfcheck rubrics, textbook developers can identify sites of diversity-blindness or lack of cultural responsiveness, and design materials with inclusive cultural representations.  \nKeywords: multilingual learners, linguistically disadvantaged, English textbook, diversity blindness, culturally responsive materials  \nIntroduction: Textbooks and Hegemonic Representations  \nThe power and politics implicit in ELT pedagogy and materials for K–12 level has long been a subject of  \ncritique, especially since access to English in education by non-first language speakers is still controlled by the hegemony and hierarchies perpetuated by “native speaker” or “Inner Circle” contexts (Gray, 2013, 2016; Grant & Wong, 2018; Kachru, 1985; Karakus, 2021; Kubota & Lin, 2009; Motha, 2014; Phillipson, 1992, 2006; Thomas, 2017) . The development of “appropriate” textbooks to teach English at grade school to students from different home language backgrounds in contexts like India is a complex exercise, since ownership of the language itself comes with a loaded colonial and cultural baggage. Similar challenges with textbook development obtain even in the Global North for different reasons, especially in racially diverse contexts such as California that have large immigrant populations. Refugee background students, in particular, bring in a variety of ethnic, racial, linguistic and literacy backgrounds to the classroom, or limited and interrupted formal education experiences arising out of forced or voluntary migration (Custodio & O'Loughlin, 2017; Shapiro et al., 2017) . But as Thomas (2017, p. 2) argued they are faced with an educational experience that canonizes “particular epistemologies as ‘valid’ knowledge that [they] are taught and examined in during the most vulnerable and malleable years of their lives.”  \nSuch contextual realities led scholars like Thornbury (2013) to claim that commercially produced (language) textbooks are “fundamentally flawed” or even “detrimental” to language teaching,“hindering rather than helping the business of language learning.”(p. 205) . Gray (2013) argued that commercially produced materials such as textbooks, “in addition to being curriculum artefacts, are also cultural artefacts which serve to make languages mean in a particular way”(p. 2) . Grant and Wong (2018) warned  \nhow “ELT curriculum, textbooks, and supporting materials represent those cultural authorities, norms, and values that the United States and other countries where English is spoken as a first language, accept and acknowledge” (p. 1) . In a later article, Gray critiqued this “enduring centrality” of textbooks “as purveyors of thematic content, syllabus and curriculum (particularly in the case of state school education, where specific values may have to be imparted) and as realizations of method and sources of examination preparation and practice”(Gray, 2016, p. 1) . 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