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20 Soc. Change 3 (1990)

handle is hein.journals/sclcnge20 and id is 1 raw text is: Social Change : March 1990 : Vol. 20 No. 1 Political orientation and protest participation M. K. Sandhu* In this paper an attempt has been made (i) to assess the nature of student protest (ii) to figure out the differences in the political orientation of the activists and non-activists (iii) to examine the bearing of these differences on the nature of student protest. Activists were located by making use of the Show Ball technique and a group of non-activists was identified by matching procedures. An index was prepared to measure the political awareness, political participation and ideological orientations of the respondents. The results indicate that (i) much of the student protest is grievance oriented, (ii) activists as compared to non-activists have greater political awareness, political participation and liberal ideological orientation (iii) from among the activists those who have greater political participation/liberal orientation tend to participate in issue-oriented protest and those who have low political participation/conservative orientation tend to participate in grievance-oriented protest. T HE politicization of Indian university students has received substantial attention. A review of the literature reveals that two trends have gained wide currency. To begin with, case studies of the universities were given due consideration. Singh (1968) views the university as a part of the network of organizations that the dominant elite uses for its political advantage. He says that politicians see the university as a colony and exploit it to promote their political power. He also sees the political equation in the teacher-student relationship in which teachers use students to gain political power in the university and society, and students form a clique with teachers to further their parochial concerns. Thus, Singh urges the need for protection of the university against political vultures who are polluting the temple of Saraswati. DiBona (1969) points out that the mass enrolments of the first generation students from rural areas changed the elitist character of Allahabad University. The majority of the students were alienated from the expressed goals of the University. This made it easy for the student union leaders to mobilize students against University and external authorities. Student leaders received support and encouragement from faculty factions which were themselves occasionally allied with dissident political factions in the state legislature. Such is the environment in which, DiBona holds, higher education operates at Allahabad. Rudolph and Rudolph (1972) refer to the academic politicians at Baroda University who used the campus to promote personal interests rather than party interests. All the works cited so far point out the ways in which Indian universities are politicized. *Lecturer, Departinnc of Sociology, Punjab University, CHANUIGARH-160014

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