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020			_a9781009215206
028			_a: Technical Bureau India _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, 7, Ansari Road, New Delhi _c: TB2455 _d: 13/11/2024
082			_a155.4 ELL
100			_aEllis, Catriona.
245			_aImagining Childhood, Improving Children _b: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India. _c/Catriona Ellis.
260			_a, New York _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2023.
300			_axi, 345p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b836.50
520			_aFrom 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.
650			_aImagining Childhood
650			_aImproving Children
650			_aChildren in South India
700			_aCatriona Ellis
942			_cBOOK
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