Abstract
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India
Highlights
Subramanian argues that meritocracy is far from being a universal form of achievement that erases ascribed identities
Subramanian takes as her field of study one of the oldest and most prestigious institutes of technical education in India: the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
The resulting interdisciplinary work tells the history of IITM and the larger debates around technical education in the colonial and postcolonial periods, focusing on the ways in which caste and the ideology of merit overlap and sustain each other in technical education
Summary
Subramanian argues that meritocracy is far from being a universal form of achievement that erases ascribed identities.
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