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Youth has created stir all over the world and equally well in India. What drives them to act the way they do is a matter of interest to the educationists, politicians, sociologists and social workers interested in channelizing and harvesting their energies for the task of social changvand development. There have been recently a number of studies on Indian youth but very few deals with the driving force that moves them. The author in the context of her long association with the student youth as a teacher & researcher for three decades has done well in making an intensive study of youth aspirations empirically. She started her work in the wake of youth upsurge in Northern India & collected information from the principal four regions of the state of U. P. She also inter-viewed educators, political leaders and student activists to her observations and findings. The book is divided into eleven chapters explaining the basic assumptions, mythology of study, social setting of the study and dimensions of the- aspirations of youth, men & women, students & non-students, rural & urban and presents her findings in various chapters dealing with aspirations regarding self, education, wealth & occupation, marriage & family, social status, politics, and society and nation. It gives a deep insight into psycho-dynamics of their behaviour and highlights the perceptions of the factors inhibiting the fulfilment of their aspirations-the major source of their 'revolt' at 'destructive' activitie