The Caste of Merit : : Engineering Education in India / / 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 t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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