Interview with Batti Lal
Batti Lal is a former student activist at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He shares his experience of fighting for Dalit rights as a student activist. This material is exhibited as part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
Category: Youth Politics
Interview with Kanhaiya Kumar
Kanhaiya Kumar is a former president of the JNUSU. He came to national spotlight due to the Azadi slogans shouted at JNU in 2016. This material is exhibited as part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
{R/Stata} Time Effects on Politicisation: The Case of JNU
This Markdown document was submitted as replication file for the article From one participant cohort to another: Surveying inter-generational political incubation in an Indian University. A copy is available on the SAtextometry…
Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World
This is the most desperate generation of Indians since Independence’ (24). Set at the crossroads of journalism and ethnographic studies, Snigdha Poonam’s first book is a harrowing account of aspirational youth grappling with their…
Diversity, Democracy, and Dissent
Qualitative and quantitative evidence collected over the last four years (2014–18) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus reaffirms the crucial contribution of the institution’s diverse and democratic base to Indian politics. The authors suggest…
From One Participant Cohort to Another
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…
IPT: Indian Politics Tweets
Here are listed the metadata of tweets, mostly revolving around the theme of Indian student politics. Each tab displays tweets from one hashtag or one twitter handle. The IPT archive is being updated occasionally…
IAIP: Intermediary Actors of Indian Politics
This project intends to examine the pivotal role of political mediators in the conduct of Indian democracy. By organizing seven research-related events on often unaccounted political intermediaries in contemporary India…
Waiting for the Liberal Indian Enfant Terrible
A decade after its first round, the results of a survey on Indian youth attitudes, conducted jointly by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), prompted…
Republic of JNU
It was an eventful day in New Delhi as its sidewalks were filled with soldiers returning to the national capital after a victory in war with Pakistan. An early autumn cheered returning war heroes….
Les Campus au Cœur des Luttes Sociales
Les universités sont-elles toujours des lieux de contestations sociales et politiques ? Où sont les nouveaux foyers de protestations ? Quels sont les liens entre mouvements étudiants et partis politiques ? Lieux d’enseignement, les…
School enrollment ratio in tertiary education in South Asia
Quick overview of the World bank data on Higher Education in South Asia (2018).