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 trends -- 6 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 programmes -- 12 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
| Author: T. S. Saraswathi, Shailaja Menon, Ankur Madan