The caste system will die only slowly. It's present here in the good ole USA too.
I have a work cohort who is Indian. He claims the caste system is no longer in use in India but dismisses the Dalits: "Ah, those people! Those people are no good!"
The caste system in India is truly shocking. It makes the old Apartheid regime in SA pale into insignificance. I can't understand why there isn't horror in the West. I can only assume it's because it doesn't polarize as easily into white/black.
There's a Ghandi quote in which he says Western civilization "would be a good idea". But wasn't he a Brahmin, top of the Indian social tree?
I have a work cohort who is Indian. He claims the caste system is no longer in use in India but dismisses the Dalits: "Ah, those people! Those people are no good!"