A Garland of Bones: Child Runaways in India
Jonah Steinberg
Abstract
This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. The book 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.
Keywords: child runaways, northern India, landlessness, debt servitude, child dislocation, postcolonial India
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300222807 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: September 2019 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300222807.001.0001 |
