Contested Childhoods

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-34334-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India. It draws upon the vast Protestant Christian missionary archives of the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the Basel German Evangelical Missionary Society to showcase the processes of negotiation, tensions, and underlying violence in the encounters between European 'outsiders' and local populations on the question of education. It examines the interplay of caste and education in reshaping ideas and norms of modern childhood and lower-caste community building in the regions of Travancore, Cochin, and Malabar. Set against a comparative historical perspective, the book argues for a greater focus on subaltern histories, especially the meanings and practices associated with educating poor, lower-caste children within the confines of formal schooling and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kannan, Divya

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Cast(e)ing Schools; 2. Saving Girls, Saving Souls; 3. Ora et Labora; 4. Cultivating Virtue; 5. Debating Compulsion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kannan, Divya
Divya Kannan teaches in the Department of History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, India. She is a historian of South Asia with particular interests in histories of childhood and youth, gender and sexuality, empires and colonial violence, histories of education, curriculum and pedagogy, Christian missions, and public and oral histories.