Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an 'Avuncular' State in Late Colonial South India

ISBN-13: 9781009215206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Ellis Catriona Ellis

Opis

This book considers the history of children and childhood in late colonial south India.

Recenzje

'A highly original and illuminating study on the development of a universal ideal of modern childhood in South India, dating back to the 1920s, when state policy toward children was shaped through a lens of child-saving and new experiences of governance. Employing child-centric theory, Ellis explores how policymakers viewed children as both objects to be saved and investments as future citizens. The book insightfully highlights the influence of caste, class, gender, and religion on childhood policies, exposing intellectual inconsistencies. Ellis also contrasts adult intentions and actions with the autobiographical memories of Indian childhoods, revealing the complex realities of childhood relationships with school, family, and peers. The book raises important new themes and agendas for the writing of Indian social history in the twentieth century.' Crispin Bates, University of Edinburgh

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Child at School: Compulsory Education in the Madras Presidency; 2. Educating the Child: The Introduction of Compulsory Education in Madras City; 3. Imagining the Child as Learner: Progressive Pedagogy in the Madras Presidency; 4. Producing the Healthy Schoolchild; 5. Saving the Child: The Madras Children Act, 1920, and the Beginnings of a Juvenile Justice System; 6. Protecting the Poor Child: The Practical Expansion of Juvenile Justice; 7. Defining Childhood: Sexual Parameters of Childhood; 8. Remembering Childhoods: Childhood Memories in Autobiographies; Conclusion: Children, Childhood and the Growth of the Avuncular State in South India; Bibliography; Index.