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Casteism in non-vedic religions
The current violence in Punjab has caste overtones. The Sikh religion essentially began as a religion of people under Ibrahim Lodhi's regime. It attracted additional followers in the turbulent period of Mughal oppression and eventually ended up as a collection of groups that retained their caste identities. So a Virk considered himself superior to a Gill; a very Hindu Manuvadi phenomenon. Similar caste transplants are also seen among Southern Christians.
Caste in itself is not bad; the discrimination and violence is. Caste and language based favouritism is too well entrenched in India to be removed. So while religious discrimination wanes, casteism and linguistic favouritism flourish. Caste is well entrenched in "son of the soil" and OBC/BC/MBC/SC/ST politics and any removal of caste politics and violence will have to address those quota based preferences without using caste as a factor. The C in OBC really stands for Caste and not Class.
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