From one participant cohort to another: Surveying inter-generational political incubation in an Indian University

Martelli, Jean-Thomas and Arı, Barış ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1300-8880 (2018) From one participant cohort to another: Surveying inter-generational political incubation in an Indian University. India Review, 17 (3). pp. 263-200.

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Abstract

Several recent studies propose that political choices of Indian youth can hardly be distinguished from those of their parents in many respects. Contrary to this well-established understanding, this article shows that when set apart from the spheres of family and work, students in a flagship Indian university—mostly in the social sciences and humanities—gradually transform their political attitudes in light of prolonged exposure to a campus environment. Through combining ethnographic study with the analysis of a survey of political attitudes of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students, we show that time spent in situ fosters participation to political activities, increases chances of joining a student organization and make students more likely to identify themselves as politically radical. The class and caste background of students, on the other hand, are not strongly associated with political attitudes, showing the integrative nature of politicization on the JNU campus.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
Related URLs:	https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2018.14... https://dro.dur.ac.uk/29498/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2021 00:59
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 07:36
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/78060
DOI:	10.1080/14736489.2018.1473319

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