Abstract
This ethnographic study of a police cadet programme in government high schools in Kerala describes how efforts to develop future leaders dovetail with educational strategies for acquiring class distinction in liberalising India. I show how the counter-intuitive movement of children from private English-medium schools to English-medium sections of government schools accrued social and cultural capital for children while establishing newer distinctions in these schools—distinctions which the cadet programme reinforced. While all cadets appreciated the exposure provided by the cadet programme, the programme’s practical logic of risk reduction and efficiency enabled English-educated cadets to emerge as ‘ready-made leaders’ requiring very little training.
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