Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an Avuncular State in Late Colonial South India Ellis Catriona
Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an Avuncular State in Late Colonial South India Ellis Catriona From as early as the 1920s, state policy towards children in South India was…
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Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an Avuncular State in Late Colonial South India Ellis Catriona
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. Children became viewed as both objects to be saved and investments as future citizens. 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.
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 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.