The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India
Book by Ajantha Subramanian
How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India.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... Google Books
Originally published: December 3, 2019
Author: Ajantha Subramanian
Mar 12, 2019 · In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among ...
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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 ...
In Madras Presidency, upper castes, and Brahmins especially, were all the more amenable to engineering because the Madras College of Engineering curriculum was ...
Aug 25, 2021 · While the author highlights how merit follows graduation from IITs, it overlooks how upper-caste students and alumni exclude Dalits and tribals ...
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Oct 31, 2020 · Xavier's College, University of Mumbai. His writing has appeared in J-CASTE, The Caravan, The Hindu, AZURE (3:4 and 4:3), and The High Window, ...
Apr 14, 2020 · Focusing on the IIT in Madras, Subramanian shows how upper-caste Tamil graduates have converted their caste privilege into professional prestige ...
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The Caste of Merit provides a historical-anthropological account of how and why the upper-castes (Brahmins) claimed the ideal of merit, specifically in the ...
The caste of merit : engineering education in India · 1. The colonial career of technical knowledge · 2. Building the IITs · 3. Challenging hierarchies of value ...
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This is one sided western narrative with no substance to the author point of view. The author have no knowledge of cast system in india. It have no parallel ...