’Labour Class’ Children’s Schooling in Urban India: A Sociological Account

Based on ethnographic research conducted in an urban, coeducational school, this book challenges the modernist, Eurocentric and ahistorical understandings of childhood that prevail in educational policy-making in India, offering a contextualised account of childhood through an engagement with ’poor’ children’s lives at home and school.

Reva Yunus is Lecturer in Education and Social Justice in the Department of Education at the University of York, UK.