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Meritocracy and Indian society

The testing and examination system of ordering society in a chronological order of talent and skill is deeply flawed, argues a new book

Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present
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Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

Praveen Chakravarty
Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present
Editors: Tarun Khanna & Michael Szonyi 
Publisher: OUP
Pages: 392
Price: £22.99
 
Daniel Markovits’ The Meritocracy Trap and Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit published in 2019 and 2020 respectively, caused a maelstrom among thinkers and public intellectuals. They challenged the sacrosanct established belief that human society progressed for the better as it moved away from a hereditary aristocracy to a meritocratic order. Other excellent books such as The Caste of Merit by Ajantha Subramanian added to this discourse and “Indianised” this argument using the context of IIT education. These ideas shook