Join us on January 19 at 6:30 pm EST for the first Winter Quarter event in this year’s series to discuss The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India with the author, Ajantha Subramanian.
The book, which came out with Harvard University Press in 2019, is an in-depth study of India’s premier engineering colleges: the IITs. Tracing the history and politics of these institutions, Subramanian explores how family background and caste status shape educational access and achievement. To interrogate the concept of “merit,” Subramanian weaves together extensive empirical evidence with an insightful analysis of privilege and prestige in higher ed.
Maitreya Shah, a lawyer and disability rights advocate and researcher in India, and Teja Chatty, a PhD student at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering with experience in diversity and equity work at Dartmouth will be joining the conversation.
Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/casteofmerit
Support for the Conversations on South Asia series comes from the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, the Department of History, and the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College.
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