ISBN:
9781009215206
,
1009215205
Language:
English
Pages:
345 Seiten.
Parallel Title:
Online version Ellis, Catriona Imagining childhood, improving children
Keywords:
South India
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1900-1999
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Children / Government policy / India, South / History / 20th century
;
Children / India, South / Social conditions / 20th century
;
HISTORY / Asia / South / General
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Children / Government policy
;
Children / Social conditions
;
History
Abstract:
"From as early as the 1920s, state policy towards children in south India was framed through the lens of a universal ideal of modern childhood. This reflected the participation of policymakers and civil society activists in global discourses of child saving and the new opportunities of governance under the constitutional reforms of 1919. Children became viewed as both objects to be saved and investments as future citizens. The book considers how adults used this concept of universal childhood to conceptualise themselves as both modern and avuncular, gaining authority through an appropriation of familial terms as well as the claim to modern, scientific expertise. Through a detailed study of education, health and juvenile justice, the book reveals that the implementation of policy was still informed by other markers of difference, and contrasts adult intentions with the autobiographical memories of school, family and peer relationships"--
Description / Table of Contents:
The child at school: compulsory education in the Madras presidency -- Educating the child: the introduction of compulsory education in Madras City -- Imagining the child as learner: progressive pedagogy in the Madras presidency -- Producing the healthy schoolchild -- Saving the child : the Madras Children Act, 1920, and the beginnings of a juvenile justice system -- Protecting the poor child : the practical expansion of juvenile justice -- Defining childhood : sexual parameters of childhood -- Remembering childhoods : childhood memories in autobiographies -- Conclusion : children, childhood and the growth of the avuncular state in south India
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