In present-day India economic growth has made great progress in enabling the children of lowincome/poor families to access formal education and ensuring that they take part in a school education. The "Cult of Success" achieved by school education is spreading throughout the people as actual ideology. However, the statistical truth is that there are still very few people who have risen from poverty through obtaining a higher academic background. What sort of obstacles do young people in India

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... ually encounter in obtaining good academic backgrounds/making occupational choices? In this paper I address the above question by focusing on the life histories of some young people born and raised in poor families in a certain local city of Uttar Pradesh. The outcome of research clarified the fact that such young people have the disadvantage of very scanty family resources combined with economic constraints and that they face another disadvantage that may be contributed to "systems", for example the public education system or labour market. These facts reflect the truth of "Inclusive Growth" in a local city in an "under-developed" Indian state. 要旨 経済成長のなか、低所得・貧困層の学校教育への包摂と参加が大きく進展した現在のインドで は、学校教育を通じた「立身出世」が人々の間にイデオロギーとして流通しつつある。しかし、 統計的事実をみる限り、貧しい家族で生まれ育った子どもが学歴を得て成功に至る事例は依然と して稀であるといわざるをえない。では、彼らの学歴形成や職業選択には、具体的にどのような 困難があるのか。本稿では、ウッタル・プラデーシュ州の地方都市の貧しい家族で生まれ育った 若者たちのライフヒストリーに焦点をあて、この問いに取り組んだ。その結果、彼らは経済的な