Caste of merit: engineering education in India

By:

Subramanian, Ajantha

Publication details: Harvard University Press, 2019. Cambridge:Description: 374 p.; hb; 24 cmISBN:

9780674247550

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.5 SUB

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar General Stacks	General	305.5 SUB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		029352

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.

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