[aildours]

Consider reading [1] (also linked in OP) for a detailed article about a very talented lower caste person who gets hired at IIT Kanpur, only to be met with overt caste-based discrimination and harassment. You'd find it hard to claim caste-based discrimination doesn't exist after reading it. On a perhaps unrelated note, the author is Manindra Agarwal, who you may know as the A in the AKS primality test.

[1]: https://kafila.online/2019/04/10/the-saderla-story-courage-i...

[alephnerd]

Yep. Indian and Indian Diaspora academia can be toxic. I remember hearing stories about a professor at a T10 CS Program who'd only give RAShips to people from the exact same subcaste community as him. There are plenty of issues with overt and covert toxicity among the South Asian community.

[cscurmudgeon]

Also consider reading that caste violence is also directed at upper castes from lower castes. It is not a one sided thing. Left-leaning ruling party politicians in a state have shamefully called for a brahmin (upper caste) genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste-related_violence_in_Indi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Brahminism

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/dmk-spokesperson-supports...

[rramadass]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333418