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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955454503321

Autore

Balagopalan S

Titolo

Inhabiting 'Childhood': Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India / / by S. Balagopalan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

9781137316790

1137316799

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Classificazione

EDU034000FAM011000SOC002010SOC047000SOC050000EDU020000

Disciplina

331.3/10954

Soggetti

Sociology

Social groups

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Ethnology

Family policy

Education - History

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Asian Culture

Ethnography

Children, Youth and Family Policy

History of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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.