01742nam a22002297a 4500 20241114154716.0 241114b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781009215206 : Technical Bureau India : 4794/23, 1st Floor, 7, Ansari Road, New Delhi : TB2455 : 13/11/2024 155.4 ELL Ellis, Catriona. Imagining Childhood, Improving Children : The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India. /Catriona Ellis. , New York : Cambridge University Press , 2023. xi, 345p. : 24cm. 836.50 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 policy makers 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. Imagining Childhood Improving Children Children in South India Catriona Ellis BOOK 62567 62567 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2024-11-14 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 836.50 0 155.4 ELL 30490 2024-11-14 00:00:00 2024-11-14 BOOK