Inhabiting ‘Childhood’

1. Introduction
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2. Re-forming Lives: The Child on the Street and the ‘Street Child’
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3. Sedimenting Labour through Schooling: Colonial State, Native Elite and Working Children in Early Twentieth-Century India
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4. Memories of Tomorrow: On Children, Labour and Postcolonial ‘Development’
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5. The Politics of Failure: Children’s Rights and the ‘Call of the Other’
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6. ‘A Magic Wand’: Reading the Promise of the ‘Right to Education’ against the Lives of Working Children
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7. Conclusion
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Keywords: Social Sciences, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Asian Culture, Ethnography, Sociology, general, Children, Youth and Family Policy, History of Education