자료유형 | E-Book |
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개인저자 | Subramanian, Ajantha, 1969-, author. |
서명/저자사항 | The caste of merit :engineering education in India /Ajantha Subramanian.[electronic resource] |
발행사항 | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
소장본 주기 | Master record variable field(s) change: 072 |
ISBN | 0674243471 9780674243477 |
기타표준부호 | 10.4159/9780674243477doi |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | The colonial career of technical knowledge --Building the IITs --Challenging hierarchies of value in Madras --IIT Madras's 1960s generation --Testing merit --Contesting reservations --Brand IIT. |
요약 | 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. |
요약 | Just as those who have been least disadvantaged by their racial identity often announce that Americans live in a post-racial era, those who have historically benefited from their caste affiliation rush to declare that India is a post-caste nation. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian addresses the controversial relationships between technical education and caste formation and economic stratification in modern India. Through a series of in-depth studies of the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-the institutions Nehru once described as modern India's new temples-she explains that caste has not disappeared from India. On the contrary, it has acquired a kind of disturbing invisibility. Caste is now borne by the lower castes who invoke their affiliation in the public, political arena to claim resources from the state. The upper castes, by contrast, treat such discussions as backward and embarrassing. Caste privilege, Subramanian argues, is certainly working in India. But it has been transformed by a new discourse of "merit." Reservations or quotas for historically disadvantaged groups, much like affirmative action in the United States, are a subject of great import in India. Admission to colleges and employment in the public sector are two of the most hotly debated subjects when it comes to quotas. Meanwhile, lynchings, gang rapes, ritual humiliation, and political intimidation of low-caste Indians appear in newspaper headlines and on social media timelines with frightening regularity. It is within this dangerous context that Subramanian's provocative and empirically based argument about the dominance of Brahmins in the Indian Institutes of Technology must be read.-- |
주제명(단체명) | Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai, India) Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai, India) -- fast -- |
일반주제명 | Caste -- India. Caste-based discrimination -- India. Discrimination in education -- India. Educational equalization -- India. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. Caste. Caste-based discrimination. Discrimination in education. Educational equalization. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural |
주제명(지명) | India. -- fast |
언어 | In English. |
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