Caste of merit: engineering education in India (Record no. 344145)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240506044558.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780674247550 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.5 SUB |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Subramanian, Ajantha |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2615 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Caste of merit: engineering education in India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harvard University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 374p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post-racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post-caste. In the caste of merit, ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical Education, caste formation, and economic stratification in modern India. Through in-depth study of the elite Indian institutes of technology (iits)—widely seen as symbols of National promise—she reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions. Caste has not disappeared in India but instead acquired a disturbing invisibility—at least when it comes to the privileged. Only the lower castes invoke their affiliation in the political arena, to claim resources from the state. The upper castes discard such claims as backward, embarrassing, and unfair to those who have earned their position through hard work and talent. Focusing on a long history of debates surrounding access to engineering education, Subramanian argues that such defences of merit are themselves expressions of caste privilege. The case of the I its shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the Reproduction of inequality-toxicity, ensuring that social stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Indian institute of technology |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2616 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Caste based discrimination in India |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2617 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Discrimination in Education in India |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2618 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2021-06-09 | 1 | 305.5 | 162689 | 2021-09-06 | 2021-08-04 | Books |