Postwar
In 1948, Empire Bairn was sold to the Indian Navy and renamed HMIS Chilka, becoming INS Chilka when India gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1950. She was used as a harbour tanker.Chilka was removed from the list of Indian Navy ships in 1976 and scrapped in 1977.
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“Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as the special responsibility of mothers ... any shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.”
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