2022
DOI: 10.1177/00380229221081978
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Chasing Elite Higher Education: Shadow Education and Middle-Class Strategies of Credentialism Around the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Exam

Abstract: The higher education system in India is creating newer structures of hierarchy and differentiation to become distinct. This is largely due to the rising demand for professional education, the returns of which are perceived to be higher than a general degree. Middle-class families have always operated within distinctive structural frameworks to contest for social cachet through education. In India, one such arena is the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). To determine who is meritorious enough to secure an II… Show more

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