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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: Ajantha Subramanian on "The Caste of Merit" ((EF,JP))
Description: Before she became the host and star ofĀ Violent Majorities, the RTB series on Israeli and Indian ethnonationalism,Ā Ajantha Subramanianāsat down with Elizabeth and John to discussĀ The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in IndiaĀ (Harvard UP, 2019). It is much more than simply an historical and ethnographic study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology. Ajantha talked to JP and EF about the language of āmeritā and the ways in which it can conceal the continuing relevance of caste (and class, and race) privilegeāin India, yes, but also in American and other meritocratic democracies as well.The wide-r...