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Sarada Balagopalan. (2026). ‘Performative innocence’: Obscuring structural vulnerabilities in child rights governance. Childhood, 33(2), 159-169.
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Hia Sen, Babel: Participatory media for children and its early travails in India, 1940–1950s, Vol. 63 (2): 175-206.
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Hia Sen, ‘In Relief’: Individual Children in Relief and Rehabilitation Records of Late Colonial India, Childhood in the Past, (2026): 1-21.
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Divya Kannan, “‘There She Goes’: Cinema, Youth and Bicycles in Mid Twentieth Century India.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, May (2026): 1-20.
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R. Maithreyi, Youth, Skills and EducationUnpacking the Politics of Psychosocial Interventions, Routledge, 2026.
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Sugandha Nagpal, Jane Dyson and Craig Jeffrey eds., Special Section: ‘Indian Youth and Social Mobility: Changing Trajectories’, Vol. 48 (2025)
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Sugandha Nagpal, 2025. “Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Religion and Mobility Among Young Punjabi Dalit Women.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 48 (5): 1228–47
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Niyati Gangwar Sharma, “Engaging with the World: A Historical Study of Urdu and Hindi Children’s Periodicals of Colonial North India,” International Research in Children’s Literature: Transnational Turns in Children’s Literature 18 [2025].
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​​​Tatek Abebe, Anandini Dar & Karen Wells, Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development. [Routledge, UK, 2025]
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Avinash Ediga, Becoming Serious Men: Politics of Emotion and the Disciplining of Desires in an Indian Coaching Town. In A. Romanowicz & A. Choudhury (Eds.), Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts (pp. 52-72). Routledge, 2025.
S. J. Abhitha and K. R. Kavya Krishna, "Experiences of Schooling and Studenthood: Contextualising Dalit–Bahujan Autobiographies". Contemporary Education Dialogue, 22(2), 222-250. [2025]
Glincy Piyus. "Literary child subjects and childhoods in Kerala: Agency and intersections in the late 20th century". Global Studies of Childhood , 15(2) ,pp. 179-190, 2025.
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Hia Sen ‘Voyaging into a Christian World: Indian children and the Church Missionary Society’s project of world-making, 1920s–1940s’, Journal of Global History 20(2): 163–181, 2025.
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Hia Sen, 'The Dispersed Child: Indian Children and Their Archival Presence in Missionary Collections' In Abebe T, Dar A and Wells K (eds) Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development,(London: Routledge), pp. 17-31, 2024.
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Shenila Khoja-Moolji and Mary Ann Chacko, Policy dissidents: Understanding girl activism as creating “Tactical Crevices”. Policy and Society, 43(1), 98-110. [2024]
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Anandini Dar, A Critical Perspective on Children's Right to Play. In Valeria Llobet (et al) Critical Children's Rights Studies. Routledge UK, 2025.
Lancy Kurakar, Hardy’s ’Aged Child’ : The Problem of Interpreting Little Father Time. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 29(1), 1-10, 2025.
Sugandha Nagpal,
They are from Good Families like Ours: Educated Middle-Class Identities and (Im)mobility among Young Dalit Women" in "Education, Migration and Development" eds.
Amy North and Elaine Chase,
, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.
Divya Ravindranath, Jean-Francois Trani, and Lora Iannotti
Sernan Demiral
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Yamila V. Rodriguez
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