| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Yale agrarian studies series |
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; ONE: Nabil's Predicament An Introduction; TWO: Home and the World Village and Child Up Close; THREE: Of Crisis, Calamity, and Village Fabrics; FOUR: Death and the Urchin; FIVE: Runaway Train Railway Children and Normative Spatialities; SIX: Remand to Rehabilitation Urban Institutions and Rural Children; SEVEN: Concluding Thoughts, Final Words, and Big Pictures Indian Runaways in Larger Frames?; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Summary |
An intimate portrait of India's child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, and considers histories of landlessness and debt servitude in narratives of child dislocation. The resulting work is an original perspective on the sociological trends in postcolonial India and a unique treatment of a population of individuals who live on the margin of society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 5, 2018) |
| Subject |
Runaway children -- India
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Street children -- India
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Runaway children
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Street children
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300241112 |
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0300241119 |
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