The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India
- ISBN-10
- 067424348X
- ISBN-13
- 9780674243484
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-12-03
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Ajantha Subramanian
Description
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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