CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH IN INDIA: Engagements with Modernity

Book Details:

• Author(s): Anandini Dar, Divya Kannan

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: 2024

• ISBN: 9783031483141

• Pages: 310

• Cover: Hardcover

About the Book

This edited volume explores the conceptual framework of the 'everyday urban' to examine how modernity in India shapes young people. It shifts focus from simplistic binaries of agency and development to the complex pathways of negotiation and conflict experienced by youth in urban India. By focusing on childhood and youth, the contributors challenge traditional understandings and engage with multiple disciplines, such as anthropology, history, sociology, disability studies, and psychology. The chapters are organized into two main themes: Shaping Modern Subjects and Being Modern Subjects. This work aims to advance the study of childhood and youth in South Asia and beyond.

Contents

Introduction:

1. Children, Youth, and Modernity in the ‘Everyday Urban’ - Anandini Dar, Divya Kannan

Part I: Shaping Modern Subjects
2. Development Discourses and Psychosocial Interventions: The Discursive Construction of ‘Risky’ and ‘Resilient’ Childhoods and Youth - R. Maithreyi
3. Conceptualisation of Development and Learning in Indian Early Childhood Curriculum - Prabhat Rai, Prachi Vashishtha
4. Mediated Childhoods: Newspapers and the Modern Malayali Child - Mary Ann Chacko
5. Clean Bodies in School Uniform: Childhood and Media Discourses of Cleanliness in Tamil Nadu, India - Smruthi Bala Kannan
6. The Trumpet and the Drum: Music and Reclaiming the Delinquent Child - Catriona Ellis
7. Identifying Child Labor: Revisiting State’s Craft in Bombay Textile Mills (1880–1911) - Palak Vashist

Part II: Being Modern Subjects
8. Examining Shifting Us-Them Binaries: The Experiences of Disabled Children in After-School Programs - Kim Fernandes
9. “Youth Must Keep Upvaluing Themselves”: Of Personality Development and Modern Selves in Contemporary Delhi - Suchismita Chattopadhyay
10. “Nobody Wants to Be the Behenji-Type”: Young People Managing Romance, Work and Violence in the Urban Slums of Kolkata - Kabita Chakraborty
11. Producing Modern Subjects of Change: Reeducation and Empowerment for Migrant Working Children in Bangalore - Valentina Glockner
12. Family Life, Schooling, and Modernity: Examining the ‘Everyday’ Experiences of Elite Adolescence in India - Adrienne Lee Atterberry

About the Author(s)

Anandini Dar is an Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at BML Munjal University, India.

Divya Kannan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at Shiv Nadar University, Institution of Eminence, India.