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Dalit and Merit; Caste Merit; Testocracy and Meritocracy; Suraj Yengde, Caste Suicides, Dalit Talent, Dalit IITs

Casteocracy: A Millennium Standard of Merit and Tests

In this chapter, we look at various aspects of merit-making by arguing that its original idea of individual achievement in a collective environment is being discounted to advance certain misapprehended notions of merit disguised as talent.