IIMB’s Centre for Public Policy to host talk on ‘The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India’ on August 19
05 August, 2020, Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at IIM Bangalore will host a talk titled ‘The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India’, on August 19 (Wednesday), 2020, from 05.30 pm to 07.00 pm. The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and of South Asian Studies, Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Please note: Registration and Zoom Meeting link: https://iim-b.zoom.us/j/98084227584
About the speaker: The first book of Prof. Ajantha Subramanian, ‘Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India’ (Stanford University Press, 2009) chronicles the struggles for resource rights by Catholic fishers on India’s south-western coast, with a focus on how they have used spatial imaginaries and practices to constitute themselves as political subjects. Her book, ‘The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India’ (Harvard University Press, 2019) is on meritocracy as a terrain of caste struggle in India and its implications for democratic transformation.
The CPP was created in the year 2000 through a partnership agreement between the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India (GoI), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and IIMB. The CPP has evolved into a leading policy think tank engaged in cutting-edge research, teaching, training and capacity building. It works on improving development outcomes across the country and has pioneered the application of management disciplines for delivery of better public services and governance.
IIMB’s Centre for Public Policy to host talk on ‘The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India’ on August 19
05 August, 2020, Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at IIM Bangalore will host a talk titled ‘The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India’, on August 19 (Wednesday), 2020, from 05.30 pm to 07.00 pm. The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and of South Asian Studies, Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Please note: Registration and Zoom Meeting link: https://iim-b.zoom.us/j/98084227584
About the speaker: The first book of Prof. Ajantha Subramanian, ‘Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India’ (Stanford University Press, 2009) chronicles the struggles for resource rights by Catholic fishers on India’s south-western coast, with a focus on how they have used spatial imaginaries and practices to constitute themselves as political subjects. Her book, ‘The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India’ (Harvard University Press, 2019) is on meritocracy as a terrain of caste struggle in India and its implications for democratic transformation.
The CPP was created in the year 2000 through a partnership agreement between the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India (GoI), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and IIMB. The CPP has evolved into a leading policy think tank engaged in cutting-edge research, teaching, training and capacity building. It works on improving development outcomes across the country and has pioneered the application of management disciplines for delivery of better public services and governance.