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Author Jeffrey, Craig, 1973-

Title Timepass : Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India.

Publication Info. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
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Summary Timepass is a vivid ethnography that illuminates the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to the underemployment they face.
Contents Acknowledgments; 1. India Waiting; 2. Cultivating Fields: The Rise and Resilience of a Rural Middle Class; 3. Life at the Crossroads: Timepass; 4. Collective Student Protest; 5. Fixing Futures: Improvised Politics; 6. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Young men -- India -- Meerut -- Social conditions.
Young men.
India -- Meerut.
Social conditions.
Unemployed youth -- India -- Meerut.
Unemployed youth.
College students -- Political activity -- India -- Meerut.
College students -- Political activity.
Middle class -- India -- Meerut.
Middle class.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780804770736
ISBN 9780804775137
0804775133
9780804770736 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
0804770735 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780804770743 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0804770743 (paperback) (alkaline paper)