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Value plays a crucial role in the progress and development of human civilization. At present, inculcation of values is a useful tool for providing students with emotional and social protection in day to day human life and society also. From that point of view, the practice of values through the textbooks among students should also be taken into a consideration. At the present curriculum scenario, the practices of values have given more importance through textbooks. Through the vernacular textbooks, the cognitive domain (knowledge) is trained and enriched but there is a lot of scope to enrich the and affective (feelings), psychomotor (doing) domain in respect of values inherent in the textbooks. This study investigates how the reflected values are embedded in different educational domains among the various forms of content of Bengali Language and Literature textbooks presently taught at the primary level of public sector of West Bengal. Qualitative content analysis approach has been employed for the analysis of the selected textbooks of primary level. The findings of the study are that there are only twenty three (23) numbers of values have been reflected in fifty eight (58) times through the different educational objective of domains. The psychomotor domain (23 out of 58) has been more emphasized to teach and delivering the concept of the contents as well as values than cognitive (17 out of 58) and affective domains (18 out of 58). Therefore, the study suggests that teachers should practice the knowledge (cognitive domains) of the textbooks related to values through the psychomotor domain which can further expand the world of the child's consciousness (affective domains) as fruitful results for the nation.