Synopsis Child rights is an important area of scholarship the world over and is gaining great significance in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Protection of child rights is now considered an integral part of human rights and recent years have witnessed a shift in the orientation and perspective on child rights. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of child rights in India. It addresses the issue of child rights from an interdisciplinary perspective and covers a wide gamut of themes such as the right to family environment, the right to parental care, the right against sexual and economic exploitation, and the right to development and survival. Bajpai critically examines the latest legislation and studies how the trends in judicial decisions have influenced the development of this branch of law. The author also provides invaluable information on the recent national and international initiatives, and the important international conventions to which India is party. She examines the latest amendments and recent reforms for setting an agenda for the protection of child rights and empowerment of children. The combination of field studies, important cases, theoretical elaboration as well as examples of NGO intervention and successful programme implementation make this book an authoritative and multi-dimensional account of child rights in India. It will be an indispensable handbook for lawyers, social workers, sociologists, child welfare agencies, civil liberty groups, policy-makers, NGOs, and international organizations including UN agencies involved in child rights issues.