Colonial Childhoods

The Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945

By (author) Satadru Sen

Publication date:

01 August 2005

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

234x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781843311775

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

'Colonial Childhoods' is about the politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and the 1930s. It examines not only the redefinition of the 'child' in the cultural and intellectual climate of colonialism, but also the uses of the child, the parent and the family in colonizing and nationalizing projects.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. State of the Experiment: Experts, Parents and the Reformatory; 2. The Nature of the Beast: The Content of Instiutionalized Childhood; 3. Experimental Childhoods: Pain and the Reformatory; 4. Gendering the Reformatory; 5. Masters and Servants: School, Home and the Aristocratic Childhood; 6. The Politics of Deracination; Conlusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index