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020			_a978-0197602478
082			_a303.30951
100			_aKhanna, Tarun (ed)
245			_aMaking meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from antiquity to the present
260			_aNew York, _bOxford University Press: _c2022.
490			_aModern South Asia
500			_aRecommended by: Rasananda Panda
521			_aContent: 1. Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective Michael Puett 2. Merit in the Mirror of Democracy: Caste and Affirmative Action in India Ashutosh Varshney 3. Political Meritocracy in China: The Ideal versus the Reality Daniel A. Bell Historical 4. Locating Meritocracy in Early Modern Asia: Qing China and Mughal India Sudev Sheth and Lawrence LC Zhang 5. Meritocratic Empires? South Asia c.1600-1947 Sumit Guha 6. Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe Redux, 1912-1952 James Lee, Bamboo Yunzhu Ren, and Chen Liang (Nanjing University) Contemporary 7. The Origins and Effects of Affirmative Action Policies in India Ashwini Deshpande 8. Merit and Caste at Elite Institutions: The Case of the IIT Ajantha Subramanian 9. The National College Entrance Examination and the Myth of Meritocracy in Post-Mao China Zachary M. Howlett Prospective 10. The Singaporean Meritocracy: Theory, Practice and Policy Implications Vincent Chua, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung 11. The Merits and Limits of China's Modern Universities William C. Kirby 12. Reimagining Merit in India: Cognition and Affirmative Action D Shyam Babu, Devesh Kapur, and Chandra Bhan Prasad 13. Meritocracy Enabled by Technology, Grounded in Science Varun Aggarwal
650			_xsocial stratification _xChina _xIndia _xhistory _xmerit _xethics _xpower _xsocial sciences
700			_aSzonyi, Michael (ed)
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