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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459213603321

Autore

Sen Satadru

Titolo

Colonial childhoods : the juvenile periphery of India, 1850-1945 / / Satadru Sen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2005

ISBN

1-283-37752-7

9786613377524

1-84331-362-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem South Asian studies

Disciplina

305.230954

Soggetti

Children - India - History - 19th century

Children - India - History - 20th century

Upper class - India

Middle class - India

Children in literature

Bengali literature

India Social conditions 19th century

India Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

State of the experiment : experts, parents and the reformatory -- The nature of the beast : the content of institutionalized childhood -- Experimental childhoods : pain and the reformatory -- Gendering the reformatory -- Masters and servants : school, home and aristocratic childhood -- The politics of deracination.

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.