The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India

ISBN-13: 9780674987883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str.

Ajantha Subramanian

Opis

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.