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While there is growing concern with issues of children's rights, a Eurocentric perspective has dominated discourses on the subject. This article argues that for a truer perspective to emerge, it is vital to relate the debate to the contemporary Indian reality - the immediate environment, the inherited socio-cultural aspects and issues of gender and caste.