Making meritocracy : lessons from China and India, from antiquity to the present /

"Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective Michael Puett In fourth century BCE China, a religious revolutionary named Mozi emerged. In opposition to much of the religious practices and assumptions of the time, Mozi announced that Heaven, the highest god, was...

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Other Authors: Khanna, Tarun (Editor), Szonyi, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Modern South Asia series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi
  • IPhilosophical
  • 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 vs. the Reality
  • Daniel A. Bell
  • IIHistorical
  • 4. Locating Meritocracy in Early Modern Asia: Qing China and Mughal India
  • Sudev Sheth and Lawrence L. C. Zhang
  • 5. Meritocratic Empires? South Asia ca. 1600-1947
  • Sumit Guha
  • 6. Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe Redux, 1912-1952
  • James Z. Lee, Bamboo Yunzhu Ren, and Chen Liang
  • IIIContemporary
  • 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
  • IVProspective
  • 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, Chandra Bhan Prasad, and Devesh Kapur
  • 13. Meritocracy Enabled by Technology, Grounded in Science
  • Varun Aggarwal
  • Afterword
  • Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi
  • Bibliography
  • Index