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Children's books on Body Positivity & Awareness 

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Children's Books on Inclusion and Disability

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Ethnographies of Children in India

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Children's Rights and Social Justice

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Youth Studies in India

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Gender, Sexuality, and Beyond 

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Ten Books on Sexual Violence for Youth and Adults

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For Children in the context of “History & Culture”.

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History of Childhood and Youth in India

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Children's Rights: Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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Colonial and Postcolonial Girlhoods

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Global Childhoods

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Adoption and Adoptive Family Lives

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Youth, Class, Politics, Consumption

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Education and the Reproduction of Inequality

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Latest publications​​

 

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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2023 and earlier

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Anandini Dar and Divya Kannan, Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity. [Palgrave Macmillan, 2023].

 

Reva Yunus, 'Labour class' children's schooling in urban India: a sociological account. [Routledge, 2023].

 

Utsa Mukherjee, Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure. [Bristol University Press, 2023].

 

Anandini Dar, "Decolonizing Children's Suffrage: Engagements with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Ideas on Democracy" in John Wall (Ed) Exploring Children's Suffrage, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

 

Soni, "Laying the Foundation of the ‘Native’ Christian Community: The Church Missionary Society and Its Experiments with Famine Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s", South Asia:  Journal of South Asian Studies, August 2022

 

Tatek Abebe, Anandini Dar, Ida M.Lysa, Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies," Childhood, July 2022.

 

R.Maithreyi, Ashwini Puja, Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Mohan H.L, "Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South”, Childhood, June 2022.

 

Divya Kannan, 'Caste, space, and schooling in nineteenth century South India', Children's Geographies, June 2022.

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Rashmi Kumari, "Constructions and contestations of Indigenous girlhoods in residential schools in Central India", Children's Geographies, May 2022.

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Shaima Amatullah, "Contesting the secular school: everyday nationalism and negotiations of Muslim childhoods",Children's Geographies, April 2022.

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Smruthi Bala Kannan,“Clean bodies in school: spatial-material discourses of children’s school uniforms and hygiene in Tamil Nadu, India”, Children's Geographies, April 2022.

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Vijitha Rajan, 'Shed', 'shed makkalu', and differentiated schooling: narratives from an Indian city', Third World Thematics 2022.

 

Leya Mathew, English Linguistic Imperialism from Below (Multilingual Matters, 2022)

 

Parul Malik, Exploring alternatives: children's participation in Critical Sexuality Education in India' Gender and Education, March 2022

 

Parul Malik, "What has literacy got to do with sexuality education',  Language and Language Teaching, Vol. 11, No.1 , 2022

 

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Divya Kannan, Anandini Dar, Sarah E Duff, Hia Sen, Shivani Nag, Clovis Bergère

"Childhood, Youth, and Identity: A Roundtable Conversation from the Global South," The Journal of Childhood Studies, 47(2), 20-31, 2022. 

 

Maithreyi, Ketaki Prabha, Arun Viknesh,

"Decontextualized schooling and (child) development: Adivasi communities’ negotiations of early childhood care and education and schooling provisions in India", Children's Geographies, January 2022 

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Children's books on Body Positivity & Awareness 

Open-Access Material 

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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

Nutrition among children of migrant construction workers in Ahmedabad, India, International Journal for Equity in Health, Volume 8, 2019 - Issue 1, Article 143


Sernan Demiral

Visible, more than Ever: Unequal Childhoods in Istanbul during COVID-19. Odrowaz-Coates (Ed.), What Would Korczak Do? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children's Rights in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic (pp. 58-69). Warsaw: Publishing House of the Academy of Special Education.

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Yamila V. Rodriguez

A Suitable Amount of (De)Institutionalization: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Odrowaz-Coates (Ed.), What Would Korczak Do? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children's Rights in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic (pp. 142-152). Warsaw: Publishing House of the Academy of Special Education.

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