A Critical Study of the Official Policies on Child Labour in India 1947-1979
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2019-03
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Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History
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Roy, Varun Kumar
Sarkar, Tahiti
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University of North Bengal
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Rakshit, S. (2019). A Critical Study of the Official Policies on Child Labour in India 1947-1979. Karatoya : North Bengal University Journal of History, 12, 131–141. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3959
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Rakshit, Samiparna
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This article essentially analyses the different constitutional provisions, all the laws
and regulations, committee resolutions regarding child labour during the period from
1947(the year of India’s Independence) to 1979 (International Year of the Child) to
tease out the actual official attitudes of the post-colonial Indian nation-state to the
problem of child labour. We have also resorted to critical reading and deconstruction
of texts as official policies are largely reflected in the drafts and final texts of the Five
Year Plans, other policy documents and the wrings, speeches and comments of
ministers, legislators and policy-makers. In order to situate the Plans, policies and
official programmes discussed in this article in their appropriate economic and political
context, we have also drawn upon the relevant gamut of social-scientific literature.
The child labourers were obviously elided by the State’s policy makers as they were
exposed to successive links in a chain of exploitation. The poorer sections were being
systematically exploited because an unequal economic system was pinning the lower
classes down to poverty.
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12
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2229-4880
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131 - 141