Equalizing access : affirmative action in higher education in India, United States, and South Africa / edited by Zoya Hasan and Martha Nussbaum.

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers presented at a conference on 'Affirmative action in higher education in India, United States, and South Africa', held at New Delhi in March 2008.

On the sites of remedial justice : colleges, clinics, and the state -- Rethinking affirmative action in admissions to higher educational institutions -- Affirmative action and the goals of education -- Affirmative action and the "Efficiency argument" -- Indian social justice versus American affirmative action and the case of higher education -- Redressing the colonial/apartheid legacy : social equity, redress, and higher education admisssions in democratic South Africa -- Affirmative action in higher education : the ambivalent experience of the United States -- How Parliament dicusses reservations : examining the debates on the Central Educational Bill -- Towards a new paradigm for ensuring universal access to quality education -- Social justice and higher education in India today : markets, states, ideologies, and inequalities in a fluid context -- Trapped in an invisible present : Muslims and disparities in higher education -- After reservations : caste, institutional isomorphism, and affirmative action in the IITs.