Nor did he contradict research carried out by the elite Indian Institutes of Technology.

ECONOMIST: Education and caste in India

In addition, Oxford and the Indian Institutes of Technology are among the most selective universities in the world, so they were also included as elite.

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In Pune PhDs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and various Indian Institutes of Technology feed data into one of the world's most powerful privately owned supercomputers.

ECONOMIST: The Tata group