Colonial childhoods
Subtitle: the juvenile periphery of India, 1850-1945
By: Satadru Sen.
Series: Anthem South Asian studies
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Childhood -- India -- History -- 19th century; Childhood -- India -- History -- 20th century; Upper class -- India; Middle class -- India; Children in literature; Bengali literature; India -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Indian -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: State of the experiment : experts, parents and the reformatory; title: The nature of the beast : the content of institutionalized childhood; title: Experimental childhoods : pain and the reformatory; title: Gendering the reformatory; title: Masters and servants : school, home and aristocratic childhood; title: The politics of deracination.