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2024
Naik, Shakir. Kashmiri Children’s Literature: A Critical Evaluation. Aishmuqam: Zain Publishers, 2024.
Kumar, Kamayani. Articulating Childhood Trauma: In the Context of War, sexual Abuse and Disability. Routledge India, London, February 2024. Imprint Routledge India.
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032710600. ISBN 9781032710600.
Forber-Pratt, A.J., & Sarkar, T. “Shishur Sevay: Promoting civic engagement and belonging for disabled young women in India”. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in
Education, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2348782.
Bhattacharya, Tithi. Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
Khoja-Moolji, Shenila. The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Chanda, Anurima. “Fitting In When Your Body Does Not: Young Girl Characters with Disabilities in Contemporary Indian English Fiction for Children” . In Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture, edited by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg, 115-129. Temple University Press, June 2024. ISBN 9781439922514.
Karmakar, Goutam. “Towards a Critical Ecological Ontology: Literacy, Sustainability, and Fostering Environmental Education through the Indian Green Informational Picturebook.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, (July, 2024): 1–21. doi:10.1080/21504857.2024.2371856.
Chakraborty, S. “Posthumanist Populist Tropes in Ruskin Bond’s Children’s Fiction”. In Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century, edited by Chacko Chennattuserry, J., Deshpande, M., Hong, P. Springer, Singapore, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_433-1.
Rao, Sandhya and Shailaja Menon. Children’s Books: An Indian Story. Eklavya Foundation , 2024.
Madhavan, Anushree. “Reality Check in Fairyland.” The New Indian Express, January 2, 2024. https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2024/Jan/02/reality-checkin-fairyland-2646843.html.
Das, Soham. “Benu: A Directly Political Magazine.” Outlook India, April 13, 2024. https://www.outlookindia.com/culture-society/benu-a-directly-political-magazine.
“Queer Literature for Children Is Changing Minds in India.” Accessed July 13, 2024. https://www.queerbeat.org/stories/queer-literature-for-children-is-changing-minds-in-india?s=04&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2GqVHunBIcY6tZGsel7Woely23VnR9964B3GBnuPqWM2-gMG_04QONVbY_aem_LEWVOPW5IAkiCDqhq2yCjA.
2023
Sarkar, T. (2023). ‘Learning for all? Ableism, education policy, and the ‘global learning crisis’ in India. International Journal of Inclusive Education. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2023.2274109.
Sarkar, T. (2023). ‘Intelligence is not just good grades’: re-examining the mindset revolution in
Indian classrooms. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 53(5), 783-801.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2021.1965467.
Kannan, Divya, and R. Maithreyi. Modern Schooling and Trajectories of Exclusion: Childhoods in India. Taylor & Francis, 2023.
Fernandes, K., & Sarkar, T. “Excessive childhoods, self-reliant citizens: Discursive constructions of care for disabled children in India during the COVID-19 pandemic”. In Disability in the time of pandemic (Research in Social Science and Disability volume 13), edited by Carey, A., Green, S, Mauldin, L. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Dar, Anandini, and Divya Kannan. Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity. Springer Nature, 2023.
Gangwar, Niyati. “Ideological Engagement in a Colonial Society: A Case Study of Premchand’s Children’s Literature”. Journal of Literary Education, no.7 (2023): 159–180. DOI 10.7203/JLE.7.26732.
Roy, Ritwika. “To Reclaim or Resist? The Multiple and Idealised Childhoods of Popular Indian English Children’s Literature”. in Literalizing the Popular, edited by Amrita Chakraborty & Asijit Dutta, 135-166. Avenal Press, 2023.
Vyas, Diti. “Feminist Subversion of Adventure in Indian Children’s Literature in English and Gujarati Languages” in UGC CARE, Scopus, (SJR) SCImago indexed The International Journal of Literary Humanities 21, no. 2 (2023): 101-112. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/CGP/v21i02/101-112
Adhya, Raahi. “The Old Woman and the Tale: Exploring the Intersection of Age and Gender within the Bengali Roopkatha.” Marvels & Tales 37, no. 1 (2023): 80-105. https://doi.org/10.1353/mat.2023.a900262.
Ellis, Catriona. Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Sati, Vibuti. “Unveiling Female Agency in Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth”.The Criterion: An International Journal in English Vol. 14, Issue-VI (December 2023): 1–10.
Singh, Tanu Shree. “For Children: Luxmi Wants to Fight for Independence Even If That Means Undertaking a Risky Mission.” Scroll.in, July 14, 2023. https://scroll.in/article/1052484/for-children-luxmi-wants-to-fight-for-independence-even-if-that-means-undertaking-a-risky-mission.
Storey, Claire. “Meet the Publisher: Richa Jha from Pickle Yolk Books.” World Kid Lit (blog), April 3, 2023. https://worldkidlit.org/2023/04/03/meet-the-publisher-richa-jha-from-pickle-yolk-books/.
Teacher Plus. “The Hum Hindustani Project: A Gentle Engagement with Nationhood,” October 2, 2023. https://teacherplus.org/bookfilm-review/2023/the-hum-hindustani-project-a-gentle-engagement-with-nationhood/.
Teacher Plus. “‘We Need to Control the Children’: Some Thoughts on Children and Punishment in the India of 2023,” April 1, 2024. https://teacherplus.org/comment/2024/we-need-to-control-the-children-some-thoughts-on-children-and-punishment-in-the-india-of-2023/.
Kasturi, Usha Raman; Sumana. Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India. Hyderabad, Telangana, India: ORIENT BLACKSWAN PVT. LTD., 2023.
2022
Kumari, Rashmi. “Constructions and Contestations of Indigenous Girlhoods in Residential Schools in Central India.” Children’s Geographies. (2022): 1–13.
Jackson, S., Degener, R. M., & Sivashankar, N. (2022). “The Roots Beneath the Fruit: Reading for Justice and Action in Picturebooks about Food. Journal of Children’s Literature, 48(1), 7–18.
Dandapat, Sridipa, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Making Men out of Boys: Revisiting Connell through Twenty-First-Century Indian Picture Books.” Boyhood Studies, vol. 15, no. 1-2, 2022. [Forthcoming https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/boyhood-studies-overview.xml?tab_body=forthcoming]
Singh, Shikha. “The Cultural Politics of Storytelling in Tree Matters (2014) by Gangu Bai.” South Asian Review 0, no. 0 (August 23, 2022): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2022.2111505.
Ghosh, Ujaan. “The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Calcutta.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 45, no. 05 (August 17, 2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2090738.
Chanda, Anurima. Timelines from Indian History: From Ancient Civilizations to a Modern Democracy. Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated, 2022.
Mukherjee, Utsa. “‘Only so That My Daughter Gets Exposure to the Culture’: Ethnic Leisure Practices and Intangible Cultural Heritage in British Indian Diasporic Families.” Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure 0, no. 0 (January 31, 2022): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2021.1999089.
Bose, Titas. “শিশুসাহিত্যিক জসীমউদ্দীন – Abasar.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://abasar.net/jasimuddin/?sshankha=winter_22.
Singh, Shikha. “The Politics of Aesthetics of Tara Books’ The London Jungle Book by Bhajju Shyam.” International Research in Children’s Literature 15, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 66–78. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2022.0431.
Stephens, John. “Children as Filmmakers: Well-Being, Social Ecology, and Cognitive Mapping in Delhi at Eleven.” International Research in Children’s Literature 15, no. 1 (February 2022): 79–92. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2022.0432.
“Lakhani – 2021 – Innocence Lost Childhood Studies and Reconstructi.Pdf.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n2/IN02.pdf.
“A Critical Review of Monthly ‘Anokhi Kahaniyan’ | Tasdiqتصدیق۔.” Accessed February 13, 2022. http://tasdeeq.riphahfsd.edu.pk/index.php/tasdeeq/article/view/66.
Mishra, Samina. “Process Talk: Samina Mishra on Being an Ally to Children.” Uma Krishnaswami. Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process-talk-samina-mishra-on-creative-practice.
Raman, Menaka. “Adulting with YA Books – The Hindu.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.thehindu.com/books/adulting-with-ya-books/article38183747.ece.
———. “‘As a Society We Are a Happy Flock of Ostriches Who Love to Bury Their Heads in the Sand,’ Tanushree Singh.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://menaka.stck.me/post/15276/As-a-society-we-are-a-happy-flock-of-ostriches-who-love-to-bury-their-heads-in-the-sand-Tanushree-Singh?fbclid=IwAR1q2hITv511tlHxQbip09lm3aFJFjqEAE9wXJfV8zjbL6yI_smpwR7rVCc.
———. “Since Our Aim Was to Capture an Indian Growing up Experience, We Felt Our First Responsibility Was towards Our Readers.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://menaka.stck.me/post/15109/Since-our-aim-was-to-capture-an-Indian-growing-up-experience-we-felt-our-first-responsibility-was-towards-our-readers?fbclid=IwAR3l9PRTBJdMVzxYQ0IapHqnEsdOuyHPAFoZynqaxkgKeUMnZPjmpzyVVhc.
Roy, Ritwika. “The Presence of Silence: Quietness and Agency in Contemporary Indian Children’s Fiction.” CCYSC. Accessed February 13, 2022. https://www.theccysc.com/post/the-presence-of-silence-quietness-and-agency-in-contemporary-indian-children-s-fiction.
———. ““The secret is that the secret changes”: Sex and Taboo in India and Indian Young Adult Fiction”. International Journal for Young Adult Fiction, 3.1, (November 2022): pp 1–21. http://doi.org/10.24877/IJYAL.84
Kannan, Divya. “Recasting Poor Children: Basel Mission Boarding Schools in Colonial Malabar.” In Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by Daniel Gerster and Felicity Jensz, 145–165. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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 45.5 (2022): 924–942.
Banerjee, Swapna M. Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining in Colonial India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2022.
2021
Sivashankar, N., & Viswanath, T. (2021). Beyond Bollywood: Identifying and Analyzing Problematic Stereotypes in Indian American Young Adult Novels. The ALAN Review, 48(2), 51–63.
Biswas, Stella Chitralekha. “A Revolution in Print: Multimodality in Bengali Children’s Literature and Its Challenges.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 59, no. 1 (2021): 41–51. https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2021.0003.
Bose, Titas. “Reading in Translation: The Soviet Picture Book in an Era beyond Its Time.” WordPress.com. WorldKidLit (blog), September 19, 2021. https://worldkidlit.wordpress.com/2021/09/19/bengali/.
Bose, Titas. Review of The Girl in the Text, by Ann Smith(ed), Children and Society, 16 Sep. 2021. Wiley Online Library, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12503.
Chahinez, EZZINE. “Lost between Uncanniness and Trauma: The Psychological Journey of Afghan Children into the Unknown in Deborah Ellis’ The Breadwinner.” Text. https://aleph-alger2.edinum.org:443. Jamel Zenati, September 4, 2021. https://aleph-alger2.edinum.org/4480.
Chanda, Anurima. “Who Eats Whom?: Transcending the Real Purpose Behind Food Events in Children’s Literature (If Any!) Through Nonsense Literature.” In Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation, edited by Simi Malhotra, Kanika Sharma, and Sakshi Dogra, 31–41. Singapore: Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5254-0_4.
Hamthoon, PM. “Perceptions of Children’s Literature in the Writings of Sheikh Abi Al-Hassan Ali Al-Nadwi:” Al Hikmah International Journal of Islamic Studies and Human Sciences 4 (August 31, 2021): 144–65. https://doi.org/10.46722/hkmh.4.3.21h.
Kannan, Divya. “‘Children’s Work for Children’: Caste, Childhood, and Missionary Philanthropy in Colonial India.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 14, no. 2 (2021): 234–53. https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2021.0021.
Lakhani, Parth. “Innocence Lost: Childhood Studies and Reconstructing the Child in Paro Anand’s No Guns at My Son’s Funeral”The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Volume 12 , Issue 2 (April, 2021): 9-24.
Laskar, Rizia Begum. “‘Never Just a Game’: Storytelling, Gaming, and Death in Luka and the Fire of Life and Joseph Anton.” International Research in Children’s Literature 14, no. 3 (October 2021): 330–40. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0414.
Bee Formentelli, “Rabindranath Tagore’s Shey as a Playful Encounter Between a Poet and His Granddaughter.” In Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (ed.), Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 95-113. 100-101.
Roy, Ritwika. “MENTAL HEALTH, SEXUALITY, AND SOCIAL CULPABILITY IN THE YA NOVELS OF HIMANJALI SANKAR.” Let’s Talk About Sex, May 25, 2021. https://www.letstalkaboutsexinya.co.uk/post/mental-health-sexuality-and-social-culpability-in-the-ya-novels-of-himanjali-sankar.
Sengupta, Tiyasha. “Heroes and Villains: Multimodal Identity Construction in Children’s Wartime Visual Narratives.” Multimodal Communication 10, no. 3 (December 1, 2021): 265–88. https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2021-0011.
Sharma, Dr. Karuna. “CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD IN CHILDREN’S CINEMA IN INDIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FOUR HINDI FILMS .” International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research 6, no. 3 (March 30, 2021): 856–70. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i03.008.
Tehseem, Tazanfal, Naima Tassadiq, Rabia Faiz, and Lala Rukh. “I Am What I Am: Exploring the Identity Construal in Pakistani School EFL Textbooks.” Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences 4, no. 3 (September 22, 2021): 679–91. https://doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v4i3.174.
Pirzada, Tehmina. “Boundary Crossings and Social Justice in A Girl Called Genghis Khan.” Bookbird 59, no. 3 (2021): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/10.1353/bkb.2021.0040.
Kannan, Divya. “Children’s Work for Children: Caste, Childhood, and Missionary Philanthropy in Colonial India.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 14.2 (2021): 234–253.
2020
Bowen, Zazie, and Jessica Hinchy. Children and Knowledge: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives from India. Routledge, 2020.
Dandapat, Sridipa, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Representation of the Adivasis: An Intersectional Study of Gender through Select Indian Picture Books in English.” New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship 26, no. 1–2 (July 2, 2020): 38–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2021.1972750.
Dasgupta, Sreemoyee. “A “Moderately” Bengali Alice: Tracing Moderate Nationalism in Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay’s Kankabati.” Children’s Literature, vol. 48, 2020, p. 1-31. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/chl.2020.0001.
Ghalian, Sonia. “In the Shadows: Tracing Children and Childhood in Indian Cinema.” In Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age, 141–56. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2631-2_7.
Hailowng, Pow Aim. “Children’s Literature of the Tai Phake Community,” n.d., 25. Zubaan Grant Papers (2020). https://zubaanprojects.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SPF-2019-Grant-Papers_Pow-Aim-Hailowng_Childrens-Literature-Of-The-Tai-Phake-Community-Of-Assam.pdf
Bose, Titas. ‘“I Can’t Tell You Just Now What the Moral of That is’: Alice in Wonderland and a History of Children’s Literature”. In Anurima Chanda eds, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Worldview Critical Editions, Worldview Publications, 2020, pp. 109–123.
“Menon – Children’s Literature of the Tai Phake Community.Pdf.” Accessed February 13, 2022. https://zubaanprojects.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SPF-2019-Grant-Papers_Pow-Aim-Hailowng_Childrens-Literature-Of-The-Tai-Phake-Community-Of-Assam.pdf.
Soni. “Learning to Labour: ‘Native’ Orphans in Colonial India, 1840s-1920s.” International Review of Social History 65.1 (2020): 15–42.
Bowen, Zazie, and Jessica Hinchy. Children and Knowledge: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives from India. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020.
Pande, Ishita. Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Banerjee, Suchismita. “Contemporary Children’s Literature in India: New Trajectories”. Journal of Children’s Literature 2.2, 2008: 6–25. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17XW2oYrYFg4I_T1Qkrai8qUovibS5ds7/view?usp=sharing