Haryana

State in north India surrounding Delhi on three sides. A New York Times piece on the global youth bulge uses its caste protests as an example.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People - The New York Times	Somini Sengupta	turning point	Caste protests in the state with India’s sharpest gender imbalance, tied to its surplus of young men.

The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People - The New York Times — Somini Sengupta (2016)

Source: Original · Readwise highlight

Little surprise then that the recent caste protests in India took place in Haryana, the state with the sharpest gender imbalance in the nation, with 879 women for every 1,000 men in the population.

• Role: turning point
• In the article: Caste protests by a landowning caste demanding government job quotas paralyzed this prospering North Indian state, blocking rail lines and burning trucks; police say 30 died. The author ties the unrest to Haryana’s skewed sex ratio and surplus of young men.
• Why it matters: It is the concrete case where the youth bulge, joblessness and the bachelor gap turn into violence.