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Examine the roots of youth unrest. How can we channel youth power for national development ?

  • UPSC 1987
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Youth unrest is usually read as a crisis of values; the evidence points elsewhere. Craig Jeffrey's Timepass: Youth, Class and the Politics of Waiting in India (2010), from fieldwork among educated young men in Meerut, found a generation with degrees but no work, turning waiting into "timepass" and into sporadic agitation. Unrest expresses blocked mobility,…

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