The Caste of Merit : Engineering Education in India / Ajantha Subramanian.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type: - 9780674243477
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- HT720 .S823 2019eb
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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
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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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In English.
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