Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility: Uncertain Futures for Rural Youth in India

Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, this book examines how the marginalized Adivasi (tribal) youth in rural India navigate the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and a very tangible risk.

Peggy Froerer is a Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University of London. She is the author of Religious Division and Social Conflict (Routledge, 2018) and has been co-investigator on a collaborative, multi-regional research project on education systems, aspiration and learning outcomes in remote rural areas in India, Laos and Lesotho.