A Garland of Bones : Child Runaways in India / Jonah Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinberg, Jonah, Author.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies series.

Yale scholarship online.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Runaway children--India.

Runaway children.

Street children--India.

Street children.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-24111-9

OCLC:

1076873507