1st Edition
Children and Knowledge Contemporary and Historical Perspectives from India
1. Introduction: children and knowledge in India
Zazie Bowen and Jessica Hinchy
2. Play on the mother-ground: children’s games in rural Odisha
Zazie Bowen
3. Adivasi children and the making of indigeneity in Jharkhand
Marine Carrin
4. Adivasi young people and the risk of education in rural Chhattisgarh
Peggy Froerer
5. Enslaved childhoods in eighteenth-century Awadh
Jessica Hinchy
6. Telling stories, washing hands: exploring the role of narrative in development programmes targeting children
Annie McCarthy
7. Duties of a ‘good citizen’: colonial secondary school textbook policies in late nineteenth-century India
Sudipa Topdar
Epilogue
Zazie Bowen
Biography
Zazie Bowen is an Anthropologist whose research includes childhood studies, gender, education, visual media and play in India. She pursues innovative methodological approaches to research with young people.
Jessica Hinchy is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is a historian who researches gender, sexuality and domesticity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North India. Her 2019 book Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India explores the colonial criminalisation of ‘transgender’ Hijras. She has also examined the history of childhood and slavery.
