The Caste of Merit : : Engineering Education in India / / Ajantha Subramanian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2019
• VerfasserIn: Subramanian, Ajantha,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674243477; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674243477
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ajantha Subramanian.

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.