Colonial childhoods : the juvenile periphery of India, 1850-1945 /
Sen, Satadru.
London : Anthem Press,
2005.
Focusing on politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and 1930s, this book deals with some pressing issues, including British and Indian attitudes to children in both countries, and how these are reflected in contemporary literature.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
State of the experiment : experts, parents and the reformatory -- The nature of the beast : the content of institutionalized childhood -- Experimental childhoods : pain and the reformatory -- Gendering the reformatory -- Masters and servants : school, home and aristocratic childhood -- The politics of deracination.
Focusing on politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and 1930s, this book deals with some pressing issues, including British and Indian attitudes to children in both countries, and how these are reflected in contemporary literature.
Children
Children
Upper class
Middle class
Children in literature.
Bengali literature.
Colonial childhoods.