This volume of writings on childhood and school days by prominent sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and literary figures-Alan Macfarlane, Aparna Basu, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Gurcharan Das, Jan Breman, Malavika Karlekar, Pradip Kumar Bose, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Susan Visvanathan, Tapan Ray Chaudhuri, T.N. Madan, and Veena Das-commemorates the seventy-fifth birthday of André Béteille, one of India's leading sociologists and writers.