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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

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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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