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Does caste has influenced childhood too?

Let’s come across with a distinct reality drawing thoughts from traditional occupational division rather than trans-formative structural change which has webbed children into it.

“Nats” is a caste where people belonging to leads a nomadic life. Nats are Banjania and Acrobats. Now a days, greater number of families are employed as wage laborers. Community has seen a decline in their traditional occupation which has led to decline in their economic circumstances. This is seen in the prevalence of child labour among the community.

Children are becoming as the symbolic construction of following the traditional occupation such as handling the snakes, tightrope walking, and kalabazi. They have been trained by their family when they touch the age of 3 years. The age when children are trained to carry out their activities of daily living smoothly like washing, brushing, self-feeding, etc. On contrary, children who has been webbed under child labour circumstances has not to feed themselves but the entire family. They are forced to develop the sense of responsibility at the age when they even don’t know about their own identity.

This has become an alarming concern to save the childhood of each child.

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