Content:

1. Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective
Michael Puett
2. Merit in the Mirror of Democracy: Caste and Affirmative Action in India
Ashutosh Varshney
3. Political Meritocracy in China: The Ideal versus the Reality
Daniel A. Bell
Historical
4. Locating Meritocracy in Early Modern Asia: Qing China and Mughal India
Sudev Sheth and Lawrence LC Zhang
5. Meritocratic Empires? South Asia c.1600-1947
Sumit Guha
6. Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe Redux, 1912-1952
James Lee, Bamboo Yunzhu Ren, and Chen Liang (Nanjing University)
Contemporary
7. The Origins and Effects of Affirmative Action Policies in India
Ashwini Deshpande
8. Merit and Caste at Elite Institutions: The Case of the IIT
Ajantha Subramanian
9. The National College Entrance Examination and the Myth of Meritocracy in Post-Mao China
Zachary M. Howlett
Prospective
10. The Singaporean Meritocracy: Theory, Practice and Policy Implications
Vincent Chua, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung
11. The Merits and Limits of China's Modern Universities
William C. Kirby
12. Reimagining Merit in India: Cognition and Affirmative Action
D Shyam Babu, Devesh Kapur, and Chandra Bhan Prasad
13. Meritocracy Enabled by Technology, Grounded in Science
Varun Aggarwal

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