Industrious, truthful, upright and manly : reforming poor young men in the borstal schools of India in the 1920s and 1930s
Ellis, Catriona (2024) Industrious, truthful, upright and manly : reforming poor young men in the borstal schools of India in the 1920s and 1930s. Gender and History, 36 (3). pp. 859-873. ISSN 0953-5233 (https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12809)
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Abstract
This article analyses the expansion of the borstal system for young male offenders in late colonial India. Based on legislative debates and prison administration reports, it considers the ways in which young adults were defined and treated within the context of these penal institutions. It reveals how institutionalised care for young men was used to reinforce the power of middle class coercive networks; to define and produce particular forms of masculinity among the poor youth of India and to contribute to wider, emerging discourses about the distinctive position of adolescents in Indian society.
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Ellis, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7423-8335;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 90167 Dates: DateEvent1 October 2024Published4 August 2024Published Online3 July 2024AcceptedSubjects: History General and Old World > Asia
Political Science > Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Social Sciences > The family. Marriage. Women > Gender identityDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > History Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 07 Aug 2024 11:26 Last modified: 10 Oct 2024 07:06 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90167