.... These contexts and interactions tend to colour and shape the childhoods that children inhabit. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in urban and rural India, the chapter documents (1) nature of children's engagements and (2) parent–child relations, explicitly observed in parent–child interactions, provisioning warmth...

... lenses that guide my sociological inquiry, and then venture into a description of my research findings that answer questions pertaining to childhood and children’s experiences in home spaces and with home objects. Childhood material culture parent–child relations home spaces domestic objects ...