ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains approximately 300 million Indian children are media-poor and working class. Class inflects almost every aspect of their lives. The book suggests that multiple studies of childhood in the United States, Australia and Europe are widely available, but this is not the case for children in India despite their 'right to be heard'. It also suggests that axes of discrimination: the ideological positioning of children from lower castes and outside the upper caste Hindu fold, as significantly anti-modern is a pernicious undercurrent in both children's and adult programming, and in educational institutions in India. The book argues instead for an understanding of conformity and interpretive and social reproduction as measures of agency, and for the centrality of poorer children's resourceful conservation as a grassroots democratic civic practice.