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DESCRIPTION:Today\, the hierarchies of Indian education prize the technical
  sciences as the true measure of intellectual worth and a proven means of 
 professional advancement. The technical graduate has become India’s greate
 st export\, widely understood to exemplify India’s comparative advantage i
 n the global marketplace. The value and mobility of Indian technical knowl
 edge are most graphically represented by the success story of the Indian I
 nstitutes of Technology. Within Indian and\, to a lesser degree\, American
  public discourse\, the IITian has become an exemplar of intellectual meri
 t\, someone seen as naturally gifted in the technical sciences. This talk 
 explores how the IITian’s merit is underwritten by a shift in the definiti
 on of caste from more localized articulations to a generalized\, supraloca
 l ideal-type that enables new forms of capital investment. In its transfor
 mation from a more localized to a national\, and even transnational catego
 ry\, caste functions as a commodity form that produces equivalence out of 
 difference in order to mobilize value. Indeed\, Subramanian hopes to show 
 that to be an IITian is itself a new form of caste identity\, one whose co
 nsolidation can be compared with the production of whiteness in the U.S. S
 peaking: Ajantha Subramanian Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology 
 Cornell University Sponsor: Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, Co-Spon
 sor South Asia Center\, Co-Sponsor Department of Anthropology\, Co-Sponsor
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SUMMARY:South Asia Center and the Department of Anthropology presents: Ajan
 tha Subramanian
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Today\, the hierarchies of Indian education pr
 ize the technical sciences as the true measure of intellectual worth and a
  proven means of professional advancement. The technical graduate has beco
 me India’s greatest export\, widely understood to exemplify India’s compar
 ative advantage in the global marketplace. The value and mobility of India
 n technical knowledge are most graphically represented by the success stor
 y of the Indian Institutes of Technology. Within Indian and\, to a lesser 
 degree\, American public discourse\, the IITian has become an exemplar of 
 intellectual merit\, someone seen as naturally gifted in the technical sci
 ences. This talk explores how the IITian’s merit is underwritten by a shif
 t in the definition of caste from more localized articulations to a genera
 lized\, supralocal ideal-type that enables new forms of capital investment
 . In its transformation from a more localized to a national\, and even tra
 nsnational category\, caste functions as a commodity form that produces eq
 uivalence out of difference in order to mobilize value. Indeed\, Subramani
 an hopes to show that to be an IITian is itself a new form of caste identi
 ty\, one whose consolidation can be compared with the production of whiten
 ess in the U.S. Speaking: Ajantha Subramanian Visiting Assistant Professor
  of Anthropology Cornell University Sponsor: Moynihan Institute of Global 
 Affairs\, Co-Sponsor South Asia Center\, Co-Sponsor Department of Anthropo
 logy\, Co-Sponsor
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