Youth in India
Youth in India

Author: Sanjay Kumar

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0429640579

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This book explores the attitudes, anxieties and aspirations of India’s burgeoning young population in a globalised world. Drawing upon time-series survey data of the Indian youth aged between 15 and 34 years across 19 Indian states, it provides key insights into a range of themes along with an overview of the changing trends and patterns of their behaviour. The volume examines the job preferences of the Indian youth, their career priorities and opinions on reservations in employment and education sectors. It measures their degree of political participation and studies their attitude regarding political issues. It looks at aspects relating to their social and cultural contexts, preferences and practices, including lifestyle choices, consumption habits and social customs such as marriage, as they negotiate between tradition and modernity. Further, it discusses the anxieties and insecurities that the youth face, their mental health and their experiences of social discrimination. The essays here offer an understanding of a critical demographic and shed light on the challenges and opportunities that the Indian youth confront today. Lucid, accessible and empirically grounded, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of sociology, political sociology, political studies, youth psychology and anthropology as well as policymakers, journalists and the interested general reader.

A Message to the Youth of India
A Message to the Youth of India

Author: Bhakti Vikasa Swami

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9788190829236

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Youth of India, Awake!Your country is destined to lead the world by spiritual strength. Understand the power of your own culture, which is attracting millions from all over the world.Religion, philosophy, social and historical analysis. Compelling insights, not only for the youth but for all interested in the future of India and the world.Arise, come forward, be enlightened.

The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India
The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India

Author: Jyotsna Kapur

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1783083530

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This book traces the heightened time-consciousness that has emerged since the 1990s in popular Indian discourses – across cinema, television, print and consumer culture – and argues that these anxieties concerning time are symptomatic of the struggle between labor and capital. Drawing on critical theory, cinema and media studies and Marxist-feminist concepts, Kapur shows how the recent political-economic shift in India toward neoliberalism has been accompanied by a new emphasis on youth and a preoccupation with change, novelty and the acceleration of time, with profound consequences for conceptions of time, youth and the relations between generations.

Handbook Of The Sociology Of Youth In Brics Countries
Handbook Of The Sociology Of Youth In Brics Countries

Author: Tom Dwyer

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 1141

ISBN-13: 9813148403

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Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream views on 'youth' and 'youth culture' are derived from the available literature on youth in the industrialized West, which is home to a small part of the world's youth. This book aims to help fill in this gap.The handbook examines the state of youth, their past, present and permits the development of insights about future. The BRICS countries have all engaged in development processes and some remarkable improvements in young people's lives over recent decades are documented. However, the chapters also show that these gains can be undermined by instabilities, poor decisions and external factors in those countries. Periods of economic growth, political progress, cultural opening up and subsequent reversals rearticulate differently in each society. The future of youth is sharply impacted by recent transformations of economic, political and social realities. As new opportunities emerge and the influence of tradition on youth's lifestyles weakens and as their norms and values change, the youth enter into conflict with dominant expectations and power structures.The topics covered in the book include politics, education, health, employment, leisure, Internet, identities, inequalities and demographics. The chapters provide original insights into the development of the BRICS countries, and place the varied mechanisms of youth development in context. This handbook serves as a reference to those who are interested in having a better understanding of today's youth. Readers will become acquainted with many issues that are faced today by young people and understand that through fertile dialogues and cooperation, youth can play a role in shaping the future of the world.

Dreamers
Dreamers

Author: Snigda Poonam

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1787381552

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Timepass
Timepass

Author: Craig Jeffrey

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010-08-16

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0804775133

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Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or economic resources is delayed, often indefinitely. But there have been few efforts to reflect on the significance of "waiting" in the contemporary world. Timepass fills this gap by offering a captivating ethnography of the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to pervasive underemployment. It highlights the importance of waiting as a social experience and basis for political mobilization, the micro-politics of class power in north India, and the socio-economic strategies of lower middle classes. The book also explores how this north Indian story relates to practices of waiting occurring in multiple other contexts, making the book of interest to scholars and students of globalization, youth studies, and class across the social sciences.

Youth, Class and Education in Urban India
Youth, Class and Education in Urban India

Author: David Sancho

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1317663942

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Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector. Since 1991, this important new market in private English-medium schools, along with an explosion of private coaching centres, has transformed the lives of children and their families, as the attainment of the best education nurtures the aspirations of a growing number of Indian citizens. Set in urban Kerala, the book discusses changing educational landscapes in the South Indian city of Kochi, a local hub for trade, tourism, and cosmopolitan middle-class lifestyles. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines the way education features as a major way the transformation of the city, and India in general, are experienced and envisaged by upwardly-mobile residents. Schooling is shown to play a major role in urban lifestyles, with increased privatisation representing a response to the educational strategies of a growing and heterogeneous middle class, whose educational choices reflect broader projects of class formation within the context of religious and caste diversity particular to the region. This path-breaking new study of a changing Indian middle class and new relationships with educational institutions contributes to the growing body of work on the experiences and meanings of schooling for youths, their parents, and the wider community and thereby adds a unique, anthropologically informed, perspective to South Asian studies, urban studies and the study of education.

Youth in Contemporary India
Youth in Contemporary India

Author: Parul Bansal

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 8132207157

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This book endeavors to be a study of identity in Indian urban youth. It is concerned with understanding the psychological themes of conformity, rebellion, individuation, relatedness, initiative and ideological values which pervade youths’ search for identity within the Indian cultural milieu, specifically the Indian family. In its essence, the book attempts to explore how in contemporary India the emerging sense of individuality in youth is seeking its own balance of relationality with parental figures and cohesion with social order. The research questions are addressed to two groups of young men and women in the age group of 20-29 years-Youth in Corporate sector and Youth in Non Profit sector. Methodologically, the study is a psychoanalytically informed, process oriented, context sensitive work that proceeds via narrations, conversations and in-depth life stories of young men and women. Overall, the text reflects on the nature of inter-generational continuity and shifts in India.

Youth Leads India to Achieve SDG in 2030
Youth Leads India to Achieve SDG in 2030

Author: Datchanamoorthy Ramu

Publisher: Notionpress

Published: 2020-05-08

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1648990665

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Our nation's youth hold the key to our future well-being. Investing generously in them will create a “more perfect union.” That is the central message of this Book Youth 2030 & SDG’s on the “promise of Youth”. This book deals about India’s Largest Community named “Youth” with development and future needs in the field of Education, Entrepreneurship, Civic Participation. The book weaves youth development theory and practices together so current and future practitioners can understand how to plan for, design, and evaluate youth programs that enable young people to thrive. Building content from the Several reports from the Government of India and the United Nations. The main purpose of this book is to Increase understanding of the growing importance of, and greater potential for, youth participation in development practice specifically for donor agencies and policymakers. Provide some initial practical guidance to assist donor agencies and policymakers to work more effectively with and for young people. "the youth bulge represents both a challenge and an opportunity for development” This Book zoomed in on a notable trend in the discourse and activity around the SDGs in India and how Youth can be a Contributor to 2030 Agenda along with the Government of India.

Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India
Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India

Author: Raminder Kaur

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0429784317

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This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books for young people in India with a particular focus on vernacular superheroism. It chronicles popular and youth culture in the subcontinent from the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary era dominated by creative audio-video-digital outlets. The authors highlight early precedents in adventures set by the avuncular detective Chacha Chaudhary with his ‘faster than a computer brain’, the forays of the film veteran Amitabh Bachchan’s superheroic alter ego called Supremo, the Protectors of Earth and Mankind (P.O.E.M.), along with the exploits of key comic book characters, such as Nagraj, Super Commando Dhruv, Parmanu, Doga, Shakti and Chandika. The book considers how pulp literature, western comics, television programmes, technological developments and major space ventures sparked a thirst for extraterrestrial action and how these laid the grounds for vernacular ventures in the Indian superhero comics genre. It contains descriptions, textual and contextual analyses, excerpts of interviews with comic book creators, producers, retailers and distributers, together with the views, dreams and fantasies of young readers of adventure comics. These narratives touch upon special powers, super-intelligence, phenomenal technologies, justice, vengeance, geopolitics, romance, sex and the amazing potentials of masked identities enabled by navigation of the internet. With its lucid style and rich illustrations, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of popular and visual cultures, comics studies, literature, media and cultural studies, social anthropology and sociology, and South Asian studies.