https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Subramanian-Caste-Merit-Engineering-Education-India https://booksandideas.net/Subramanian-Caste-Merit-Engineering-Education-India 2020-12-14T08:00:00Z text/html en Tabea Schroer International United States of America education India castes Books and ideas originals meritocracy <p>Meritocracy claims that educational titles are vested on the basis of achievement and not inherited ascription. Examining an Indian elite education institution, Ajantha Subramanian shows how upper castes use this discourse to make their caste privilege invisible. The processes of the social (un) making of caste then serve the reproduction of inequality</p>