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Mapping the elite : power, privilege, and inequality

Title
Mapping the elite : power, privilege, and inequality / edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet.
Publication
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Jodhka, Surinder S.
  • Naudet, Jules
Description
xvi, 304 pages : charts; 22 cm.
Summary
Contributed articles presented at a conference organized in January 2016 at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Series Statement
Exploring India's elite
Uniform Title
Exploring India's elite.
Subject
  • Elite (Social sciences) > India > Congresses
  • Caste > India > Congresses
  • Caste-based discrimination > India > Congresses
  • Élite (Sciences sociales) > Inde > Congrès
  • Castes > Inde > Congrès
  • Discrimination fondée sur la caste > Inde > Congrès
  • Caste
  • Caste-based discrimination
  • Elite (Social sciences)
  • Social conditions
  • Ethnosoziologie
  • Politische Anthropologie
  • Soziale Schichtung
  • Ungleichheit
  • Kaste
  • Elite
  • Privileg
  • Sozioökonomischer Wandel
  • Soziokultureller Wandel
  • India > Social conditions > Congresses
  • Inde > Conditions sociales > Congrès
  • India
  • Indien
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available as an ebook.
Contents
The meritocrats: the Indian institutes of technology and the social life of caste / Ajantha Subramanian -- Heirs, corporate aristocrats, and 'meritocrats': the social space of top CEOs and chairpersons in India / Jules Naudet, Adrien Allorant, and Mathieu Ferry -- Issues of entitlement / Saurabh Dube -- Artefacts and artifices of the global: practices of US architects in India's national capital region / Namita Vijay Dharia -- Kula Gauravam, transnational migration, and class mobility: reconfiguring the dominant caste status in coastal Andhra / Sanam Roohi -- 'Take this land': a brief history of the Karnataka Golf Association / Patrick Inglis -- Reproducing elite lives: women in Agarwal family businesses / Ujithra Ponniah -- For things to remain (sort of) the same, everything must change: India's first-generation professional elites and the surreptitious reproduction of hierarchy / Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen -- The secret lives of money: understanding elite women of Delhi / Parul Bhandari.
ISBN
  • 9780199491070
  • 0199491070
  • 9780199097913
  • 0199097917
LCCN
2019346371
OCLC
  • on1117646309
  • 1117646309
  • SCSB-14536915
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries