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No it is not. Then Ramayana and Mahabharata aren't scriptures, too. Smritis are definitely scripture. And yes, there were dissenters. And no, not of only some Hindus, the casteism …

"Creamy layer" only applies to OBCs and not SCs. SCs have no ceiling of income to qualify for benefits. I know about casteism in other religions. But the scale is nowhere near to t…

It is mentioned in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishads that brahmins were born from the head of the Purusha and the Sudras from His feet. Dalits are even outside of these four varnas.

This person is spreading propaganda. Read Manu Smriti, Yajnabalka Smriti, or Parashara Smriti. You can find them online. In Bhagavad Gita, there are no verses that directly say bad…

> The caste system, as per scriptures, is just a categorization of work that people do. This is blatantly false. Can you cite me some? Even the Lord Rama killed Shambuka because he…

> There's no dharmic status whatsoever for "caste" in the commonplace sense I have read many verses from Manu Smriti, Parashara Smriti, and Yajnabalka Smriti. They are ripe with ca…

That would be impractical. And the results of this cannot be perceived now. But I believe that more communities will seek to be the "lower castes" because there will be benefits. A…

No not really. In some cases the village might indicate one's caste. In most cases, it does not. If two Indians are from the same region, they know the demographic of that region p…

I would like non-Indian people to know that the caste problem is not uniformly distributed throughout India. In cities like Kolkata, Chennai, and Mumbai- the problem is non-existen…