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Inhabiting 'Childhood' : Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137316790
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inhabiting 'Childhood': Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial IndiaLOC classification:
  • HM716-753.2
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Re-forming Lives: The Child on the Street and the 'Street Child' -- 2 Sedimenting Labour through Schooling: Colonial State, Native Elite and Working Children in Early Twentieth-Century India -- 3 Memories of Tomorrow: On Children, Labour and Postcolonial 'Development' -- 4 The Politics of Failure: Children's Rights and the 'Call of the Other' -- 5 'A Magic Wand': Reading the Promise of the 'Right to Education' against the Lives of Working Children -- Conclusion: Growing up, Moving on … -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit the transition from labour to schooling.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Re-forming Lives: The Child on the Street and the 'Street Child' -- 2 Sedimenting Labour through Schooling: Colonial State, Native Elite and Working Children in Early Twentieth-Century India -- 3 Memories of Tomorrow: On Children, Labour and Postcolonial 'Development' -- 4 The Politics of Failure: Children's Rights and the 'Call of the Other' -- 5 'A Magic Wand': Reading the Promise of the 'Right to Education' against the Lives of Working Children -- Conclusion: Growing up, Moving on … -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit the transition from labour to schooling.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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