Many years ago, I had organized our People of India section by the caste. I had said that while I deplore the caste-based discrimination, the caste was an important cultural identifier. I recieved many emails protesting my stance, and I subsequently removed the caste based classification.
But the caste thing doesn't go away, just because I remove a web-page.
So with much deliberation and thought, and by popular request, I present introduction to The Caste System.
