Recommended by: Nandini hebbar N.

Content:

Introduction: The Engineering Mania
The Contemporary Contexts of Engineering Education
Family, Private Education, and the Modern Nation State
Understanding Gender in Intersection With Class and Gender
Sites and Methods
The Chinna College of Technology
Categories in the Field
1 'Kinning' Education
Genealogies of Private Engineering Colleges
Patronage to Philanthropy: Technical Education Up to the 1960s Consolidation of the Private Model: 1970s to 1990s
The IT Boom and Beyond: 1990s to the Present
Conclusions
2 'Edupreneurship': Mapping Management Practices
Locating 'Big Men' in Gender and Community Formations
Regional Patrons and Technocrats
Education and Industrial Businesses
Politics and Authority
Construction of Expertise
Edupreneurship as Capitalization of Resources
Subjectivities in Higher Education
Conclusions
3 Becoming Professional: Dilemmas in Emerging 'Employable'
The Placement Race
Training to Get Ahead
Learning a Professional Habitus 'Culture Shock'
The Remaking of Self and Subjectivities
Conclusion
4 Manufacturing Respectability: Gendering the Engineering College Boom
Young Women in Education
Gendering Enrolment and Disciplines
Gender in the Classroom
Gendered Discourse and Performance
In the Hostels
The Boundaries of Friendship
Conclusion
5 Negotiating Intimate Risk: Gendered Subjectivities, Performativity, and Self-Making
'Subjectivities of Suitability'
Gendered Risk, Sociality, and Modes of Courtship
Love, Self, and Shifting Meanings
Gendered Dynamics and Relationship Trouble Conclusion
6 Engineering Aspirations and Lives of Youth: Implications for Gender, Caste, and Class
Caste and Its Networks
Class Conundrums
Gendered Hopes and Limits
Implications for Studies of Youth