TY - GEN N2 - Does the burgeoning Indian information technology (IT) sector represent a deviation from the historical arc of caste inequality or has it become yet another site of discrimination? In 'The New Frontier', author Marilyn Fernandez describes how the practice of pure and holistic merit are deeply embedded in the social, cultural and economic privileges of the dominant castes and classes, and how caste filtering has led to the reproduction of caste hierarchies and, consequently, the small Dalit footprint in Indian IT. AB - Does the burgeoning Indian information technology (IT) sector represent a deviation from the historical arc of caste inequality or has it become yet another site of discrimination? In 'The New Frontier', author Marilyn Fernandez describes how the practice of pure and holistic merit are deeply embedded in the social, cultural and economic privileges of the dominant castes and classes, and how caste filtering has led to the reproduction of caste hierarchies and, consequently, the small Dalit footprint in Indian IT. T1 - The new frontier :merit vs. caste in the Indian IT sector / AU - Fernandez, Marilyn, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - HD4903.5.I4 N1 - Previously issued in print: 2018. ID - 867462 KW - Discrimination in employment KW - Computer industry KW - Caste SN - 9780199092109 TI - The new frontier :merit vs. caste in the Indian IT sector / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199479498.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199479498.001.0001 ER -