Caste of merit: engineering education in India
Subramanian, Ajantha
Caste of merit: engineering education in India - Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. - 374 p.; hb; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780674247550
Social sciences
Sociology
Caste
Caste based discrimination
Discrimination in education
India
IIT
305.5 / SUB
Caste of merit: engineering education in India - Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. - 374 p.; hb; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780674247550
Social sciences
Sociology
Caste
Caste based discrimination
Discrimination in education
India
IIT
305.5 / SUB
