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Latest publications​​

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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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Children's books on Body Positivity & Awareness 

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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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