‘Children are capital, grandchildren are interest’: Changing educational strategies and parenting in Calcutta's middle-class families

Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 119-140

  Donner, Henrike ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.7135/UPO9781843313823.006     Document Type: Chapter

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