Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan

Growing Up and Away

Narratives of Indian Childhoods Memory, History, Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses child rights and its evolution in India in the background of the country's Independence. It studies the various initiatives and policies made by the State's in post-Independence India and critically evaluates them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780198071266
• ISBN-10: 0198071264
• Artikelnr.: 33721954

Autorenporträt

Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan is M.A in Development Studies, and has worked with Child Rights and You, a child rights organization. She is presently an independent researcher.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of tables, figures
1: Introduction: Standpoint of the Unwanted Child;
2: Elapsed Laws: In the Shadow of Partition;
3: Social Worker and State: Bonds of Trust;
4: the Hyphenated Child-State Relationship;
5: Making of Tomorrow's Citizen;
6: Acknowledgement of the Mini-Adult;
7: Emergence of the Child Rights Advocate;
8: Future Narratives;
Bibliography
Index