TY  - BOOK
AU  - Subramanian,Ajantha
TI  - The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India 
SN  - 9780674243477
AV  - HT720 .S823 2019eb
U1  - 305.5/1220954 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Caste
KW  - India
KW  - Caste-based discrimination
KW  - Discrimination in education
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674243477
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674243477
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