| Also, this is the reason students in their board exams (+2 / Twelfth-grade tests) were forbidden from writing their last name in the answer sheets. Teachers in India openly discriminated against students from other castes/jatis/varnas by giving them lower marks. Not just caste but discrimination based on the state-of-origin/language are often committed by identifying your group based on your last name. There are often groups in offices from some states that will ensure that folks that are not from their states don't succeed and are coerced into resigning. Folks from relatively developed states in India don't want to admit students from underdeveloped or poor states, which breeds another form of caste-language-based discrimination in India. Does caste-based discrimination exist?
Yes, it does. But it depends on where you live. In rural India, it is more prevalent than in California. Is the Indian government doing anything about this menace?
Yes, India has a positive discrimination system for these oppressed castes in all government universities and all governmental jobs. Today 65-75% of all seats in top Indian universities are for oppressed, underprivileged, and poor people. Is it better than now compared to when we got independence?
Yes, but many want their kids not to marry into other castes, mainly lower caste. |