Mapping the Elite Power, Privilege, and Inequality

Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems,. School of Social Sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,Jules Naudet, Research Fellow, CNRS Paris

Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Jules Naudet is an alumnus of Sciences Po Paris and of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Hindi) and holds a doctorate in Sociology. His doctoral research focused on a comparative analysis of the experience of upward social mobility in France, in India and in the United-States.

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet
Section I: Merit, Privilege and Entitlements
1. The Meritocrats: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste
Ajantha Subramanian
2.Heirs, Corporate Aristocrats, and "Meritocrats": The Social Space of Top CEOs and Chairmen in India
Jules Naudet, Adrien Allorant, and Mathieu Ferry
3. Issues of Entitlement
Saurabh Dube
Section II: Indian Elites and The Global Scene
4. Artifacts and Artifices of the Global: Practices of US Architects in India's National Capital Region
Namita Dharia
5. Kula Gauravam, Transnational Migration, and the Reconfiguration of the Dominant Caste Status in Coastal Andhra
Sanam Roohi
6. Neoliberal Fairways: A Brief History of the Karnataka Golf Association
Patrick Inglis
Section III: Women at the Top: Gender Intersections
7. Reproducing Elite Lives: Women in Aggarwal Family-Businesses
Ujithra Ponniah
8. For Things To Remain (Sort Of) The Same, Everything Must Change: India's First Generation Professional Elites & The Surreptitious Reproduction Of Hierarchy
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
9. The Secret Lives of Money: Understanding Elite Women of Delhi
Parul Bhandari
Index
About the Editors and Contributors