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Cover image for book Inhabiting 'Childhood': Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India

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

By:S. Balagopalan
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230296428
eText ISBN:9781137316790
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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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.