Childhoods in India : traditions, trends, and transformations / T. S. Saraswathi.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I History and politics of childhood; 1 Colonial modernity and the 'child figure': reconfiguring the multiplicity in 'multiple childhoods'; 2 Did girls have a childhood in the past? Mythologies, ideologies, histories; 3 India's children and the brave new world; Part II Sociocultural perspectives; 4 Childhood, culture and the social sciences: what we have gained and what we may be in the process of losing

5 Parent-child relations: changing contours and emerging trends6 Bala Krishna: a paradigm of childhood relevant to the present time; 7 Baccha log, taali bajao: orphans in cinematic imagination; 8 Representing marginalised childhoods in contemporary graphic novels and picture books in India; Part III Education and schooling; 9 Construction of children in Indian educational curricular and policy documents (1964-2005): implications for education; 10 Education and gender: a critical analysis of policies in India

11 Childhood as 'risky' and life as 'skills': social implications of psycho-educational programmes12 Cultures of fear: children in school; Part IV Law, practice and policy; 13 Right to childhood and equitable access to justice; 14 The journey of paediatrics from Vedic to neoteric; 15 Food and nutrition in childhood: ensuring dietary adequacy, diversity and choice; 16 Social policy and research interface: challenges and prospects; Epilogue
Child rights: a dialogue; Glossary; Author Index; Subject Index