The Caste of Merit Engineering Education in India |
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Author:
| Subramanian, Ajantha |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-98788-3 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2019 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $56.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.