Ishita Pande is Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at Queen's University, Canada. She is the author of Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire (2010).
Introduction
I. Provincializing childhood
1. The autoptic child: The Age of Consent Act (1891), law's temporality, and the epistemic contract on age
2. Juridical childhood: the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929), global biopolitics, and the "digits of age"
II. Queering age stratification
3.The sex/age system: boy-grooms, young rapists, and child protection in hindu liberalism
4. Reproductive temporality: the staging of childhood and adolescence in global/hindu sexology
iii. Consent otherwise
5.Rethinking minority: Rangila Rasul, the "muslim child wife," and the politics of representation
6. An age of discretion: querying age and legal subjectivity in the secular shari'a
Epilogue
