"Rather than curbing the power of caste, then, economic liberalisation has exacerbated caste differences because it has exacerbated inequality in a society stratified along caste lines."
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"It is certainly the case that in liberal democratic societies, the formal equality of individuals serves as a convenient alibi for obscuring collective histories of advantage and disadvantage."
"We see this playing out in evaluations of merit in which the individual is treated as a person with certain innate capacities rather than as a person who has been afforded structural advantages."
"There is no justification for implementing reservations in student admissions and not in faculty hiring. The argument behind this discrepancy is that reservations undercut “excellence”. This is a casteist assumption that simply does not have a basis in fact."
"Moreover, to say that the EWS classification is purely “economic” reinforces the perception of dominant castes as casteless. On the contrary, poor dominant castes have access to caste networks that are not available to even economically better-off marginalised castes."
"Dominant caste Indian-Americans have fashioned themselves as part of a meritocratic “model minority” that is distinct from less affluent non-white groups. The invisibility of caste helps to reinforce the perception that their achievements are forms of self-made success."
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