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The caste of merit : engineering education in India / Ajantha Subramanian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Subramanian, Ajantha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai, India).
- Caste--India.
- Caste.
- Caste-based discrimination--India.
- Caste-based discrimination.
- Discrimination in education--India.
- Discrimination in education.
- Educational equalization--India.
- Educational equalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to call their country post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country a post‐caste meritocracy. Ajantha Subramanian challenges this belief, showing how the ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality in Indian education.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Colonial Career of Technical Knowledge
- 2. Building the IITs
- 3. Challenging Hierarchies of Value in Madras
- 4. IIT Madras's 1960s Generation
- 5. Testing Merit
- 6. Contesting Reservation
- 7. Brand IIT
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780674243484
- 067424348X
- 9780674243477
- 0674243471
- OCLC:
- 1125192856
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