22 Ajantha Subramanian: Meritocracy, Caste, and Class (EF, JP)

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07/02/2020 49 min
22 Ajantha Subramanian: Meritocracy, Caste, and Class (EF, JP)

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Ajantha Subramanian‘s new book The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India is much more than simply an historical and ethnographic study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology. John and Elizabeth speak with Ajantha about the language of “merit” and the ways in which it can conceal the continuing relevance of caste (and class, … Continue reading "22 Ajantha Subramanian: Meritocracy, Caste, and Class (EF, JP)"
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