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Notes

1. Chetan Bhagat, Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, A Novel (Kolkata: Rupa & Co., 2004), p. 25.

2. Sanjay Seth, ‘Changing the Subject: Western Knowledge and the Question of Difference’, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 49, no. 3 (2007), p. 666.

3. George Curzon, Lord Curzon in India: Being a Selection from His Speeches as Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1898–1905 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1906), p. 485.

4. Seth, ‘Changing the Subject’, p. 673.

5. ‘Cramming’, The Times of India (27 Oct. 1874), p. 2.

6. V. Narayana Murthi, ‘Employers Today Look for Hard and Soft Skills’, The New Indian Express (24 Jan. 2015) [http://www.newslocker.com/en-in/region/vellore/employers-today-look-for-hard-and-soft-skills-the-new-indian-express/view/].

7. Seth, ‘Changing the Subject’, p. 683.

8. Ibid., p. 675.

9. R.P. Dore, The Diploma Disease: Education, Qualification, and Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).

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Funding

McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Melbourne; Rhodes Scholarships.