[flat-pluto]

"have never heard of the caste based discrimination until that cisco case"

I didn't hear of it either until I noticed large groups of Indian-origin devs and managers (mostly at older companies such as IBM, Oracle, etc), and somehow only the 'upper caste' folks would get promoted and be invited to happy hours and such. How much that can be attributed to inter-personal relationships and professional competence as opposed to outright discrimination, one will never know but a pattern does emerge. It's never in your face discrimination, just subtle favoritism towards one's group.

Mind you, this happens with people from the same Indian state as well. They'll often speak in their regional language during meetings even though not everyone speaks that language, which simply goes on to alienate that team member. (This has happened to friends of mine at T-Mobile and Intel)

"marriage sites have done more to break cast barriers in india"

Not sure if I agree with you there. It has brought to light just how prevalent that kind of thinking is. It's a common trope on Indian matrimonial websites how users have a list of requirements (Looking for fair skinned, Hindu upper caste, etc). Maybe that has helped break cast barriers by bringing it to light, I don't know, but it was really surprising when I came upon it for the first time.

[barry-cotter]

It’s modernity, of which these sites are a part. Only marrying within one’s caste is a way point from only marrying in one’s jati, on the way to caring about socioeconomic status and not much else. In the US marrying within the religion, but outside the ethnic group lasted at most 50 years. Panmictia is coming.