Special issue: Children’s lives and the Indian context

Edited by: Sarada Balagopalan

Introduction: Children’s lives and the Indian context - Sarada Balagopalan
Adam’s escape: Children and the discordant nature of colonial conversions - Karen A. A. Vallgårda
Telling different tales: Possible childhoods in children’s literature - Deepa Sreenivas
Beyond compassion: Children of sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi - Oishik Sircar and Debolina Dutta
Ideals of Hindu girlhood: Reading Vidya Bharati’s Balika Shikshan - Nandini Manjrekar
Children’s moral reasoning about illness in Chhattisgarh, central India - Peggy Froerer
‘Snapshots’ of the classroom: Autobiographies and the experience of elementary education in the Madras Presidency, 1882-1947 - Catriona Ellis
Book reviews: Panelli, Ruth, Punch, Samantha and Robson, Elsbeth (eds) (2007) Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives. New York: Routledge (266 pp.) ISBN 0415397030 - Sally McNamee
Benei, Veronique (2008) Schooling Passions: Nation, History, and Language in Contemporary Western India. Stanford: Stanford University Press (346 pp.) ISBN 9780804759060 - Spyros Spyrou
O’Connor, Pat (2008) Irish Children and Teenagers in a Changing World. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (181 pp.) ISBN 9780719078194 - Jane Helleiner