ISBN:
9780199491070
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0199491070
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9780199097913
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0199097917
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 304 Seiten
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Diagramme
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22 cm
Edition:
Also available as an ebook
Series Statement:
Exploring India's elite
DDC:
305.520954
Keywords:
Elite (Social sciences) Congresses
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Caste Congresses
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Caste-based discrimination Congresses
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Caste
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Caste-based discrimination
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Elite (Social sciences)
;
Social conditions
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Ethnosoziologie
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Politische Anthropologie
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Soziale Schichtung
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Ungleichheit
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Kaste
;
Elite
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Privileg
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Sozioökonomischer Wandel
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Soziokultureller Wandel
;
India Congresses Social conditions
;
India
;
Indien
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Contributed articles presented at a conference organized in January 2016 at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Also available as an ebook.
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