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Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India

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Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to call their country postracial, Indians who have benefited from upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country a postcaste meritocracy.

Ajantha Subramanian challenges this belief, showing how the ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality in Indian education.

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Harvard University Press
067424348X / 9780674243484
eBook (EPUB)
03/12/2019
English
336 pages
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