" Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity powerfully explores the 'everyday urban' as a new conceptual and constructively critical approach to studying young peoples' complex engagements with modernity in the Indian context. The original contributions made by the cross-disciplinary set of essays persuasively confirm the significance of children and childhoods to postcolonial theorizations of modern citizenship, national development, urbanization, and mediatized subjectivities." (Sarada Balagopalan, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, USA) "This volume brings together contemporary scholarship in the area of childhood and youth studies in the Indian context. Spanning historical essays to contemporary accounts, the volume responds to the need for critical analysis of existing frameworks in childhood studies and emerging questions of childhood and youth within neoliberal times. Using the 'everyday urban' as an analytical grid, the essays bring in themes related to education, social identities, and power, opening up new questions of experience, accommodation and resistance. It is an extremely significant contribution to the field and will undoubtedly soon find itself on reference lists of childhood/youth studies courses across universities." (Nandini Manjrekar, Professor and Dean, School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India) "Invigorated by interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary debates in childhood and youth studies, this collection illuminates the quotidian workings of modernity and globalization in the lives of children and youth. The book contains excellent analysis that renders intelligible not just how young lives encounter, negotiate, and transform their social and material world but also adds new theoretical provocations on the effects that media, technology, education, skilling, and the project of nation-building engender on what it means to bea young person in modern urban India.

" (Tatek Abebe, Professor in Childhood Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway).