Caste of merit : engineering education in India
- Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2019
- 374 p.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Caste-India caste based discrimination discrimination in education educational equalization Backward Castes Caste conflicts Brand IIT Coaching industry Dravidianism Entrepreneurialism IIT Madras Imperial liberalism Indian Civil Service (ICS) Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Mandal Commission Reservation System State developmentalism Tamil Brahmins: Caste Culture Transnational mobility Upper Casteness Varna Classification