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

S. Balagopalan

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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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.

ISBN-13
9781349333561
ISBN-10
1349333565
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-01-01
Pages
237
Dimensions
142x215x42
Weight
336