The Caste Of Merit: Engineering Education In India

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.

• | By (Author): Ajantha Subramanian
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 03, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674987888
• | ISBN-13: 9780674987883