ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to present the nature and forms of diversity that mark the constructions of childhood, emanating from the lens of social class. It paints the picture of the complex familial-sociocultural milieu by presenting a brief profile of sample families. The chapter rests on the assumption that it is within these child-parent interactions that the meaning of childhood emerges. It reiterates the existence of “multiple childhoods” by bringing to focus three different portraits of childhoods lived by the children in lower, middle and higher social class families in India.
