Khanna, Tarun (ed) <br/><br/>
Making meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from antiquity to the present  

 - New York,  Oxford University Press:  2022. 
 - Modern South Asia .
<br/><br/> Recommended by: Rasananda Panda 
<br/><br/> Content:<br/><br/>1. Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective<br/>Michael Puett<br/>2. Merit in the Mirror of Democracy: Caste and Affirmative Action in India<br/>Ashutosh Varshney<br/>3. Political Meritocracy in China: The Ideal versus the Reality<br/>Daniel A. Bell<br/>Historical<br/>4. Locating Meritocracy in Early Modern Asia: Qing China and Mughal India<br/>Sudev Sheth and Lawrence LC Zhang<br/>5. Meritocratic Empires? South Asia c.1600-1947<br/>Sumit Guha<br/>6. Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe Redux, 1912-1952<br/>James Lee, Bamboo Yunzhu Ren, and Chen Liang (Nanjing University)<br/>Contemporary<br/>7. The Origins and Effects of Affirmative Action Policies in India<br/>Ashwini Deshpande<br/>8. Merit and Caste at Elite Institutions: The Case of the IIT<br/>Ajantha Subramanian<br/>9. The National College Entrance Examination and the Myth of Meritocracy in Post-Mao China<br/>Zachary M. Howlett<br/>Prospective<br/>10. The Singaporean Meritocracy: Theory, Practice and Policy Implications<br/>Vincent Chua, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung<br/>11. The Merits and Limits of China's Modern Universities<br/>William C. Kirby<br/>12. Reimagining Merit in India: Cognition and Affirmative Action<br/>D Shyam Babu, Devesh Kapur, and Chandra Bhan Prasad<br/>13. Meritocracy Enabled by Technology, Grounded in Science<br/>Varun Aggarwal<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0197602478 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--social stratification--China--India--history--merit--ethics--power--social sciences
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.30951