The Caste of Merit (Record no. 66944)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674987883
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : Flat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, New Delhi
Bill Number : 122275
Bill Date : 06/12/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.51 SUB
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Subramanian, Ajantha.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Caste of Merit
Remainder of title : Engineering Education in India.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Ajantha Subramanian.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2019.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 374 p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
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.<br/><br/>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 defenses of merit are themselves expressions of caste privilege. The case of the IITs shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality, ensuring that social stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Caste
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Caste-based discrimination
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Discrimination in education
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ajantha Subramanian.
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Koha item type Books
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 02/01/2026 International Book Distributors 4629.00 2 4 305.51 SUB 31278 30/11/2026 18/08/2026 18/08/2026 02/01/2026 Books
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