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

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...

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Main Author: Balagopalan, S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Subjects:
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Ethnology—Asia.
Ethnography.
Sociology.
Social policy.
Education—History.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Asian Culture.
Sociology, general.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
History of Education.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316790

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