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How far is generational disaffiliation responsible for youth activism in India? Why is the Indian youth failing to respond to the national challenges?

  • UPSC 1985
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Generational disaffiliation means the young withdrawing identification from the parental generation's values, authority and institutions. Lewis Feuer, in The Conflict of Generations (1969), made this the engine of student movements: youth revolt is a de-authorisation of the fathers, projected onto politics. Karl Mannheim offered the subtler version — a generation unit forms only where shared…

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