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So, don’t just imagine that all the lower caste people are cleaning someone’s house for 2cents a day.. those days are gone..

Those days are NOT gone in rural India. You're talking about urban India in places like Bombay, Bangalore, Madras, Delhi, etc. but the lower caste people in many villages are still treated as untouchables, who are made to clean toilets and catch and eat rats. In the cities, YES, I'll agree, most people don't know or care about caste.

india's way too vast (1 billion people, 800 languages, multiple cultures and religions and classes and races) to allow for a single statment. Nathan is wrong to say that caste still is a factor and you're wrong to say it isn't. What is right is to say that "in some places"....

Even your 30/40 days is not enough for a continent like India -- you in the south, are Dravidian speakers have your own culture and even your history is completely unlike that of say the Punjab. Hindu rulers ruled in most of the south until recently, while the north had to suffer the traumas of Muslim invasions. Islam in the south came peacefully, in the north it came at the edge of the sword, hence the difference in perceptions. The Tamils were attacked by the Mughals and Marathas, so, most likely when the British came to Madras, they just saw the BRitish as another bunch of foreigners, no different from the Marathas, Sikhs or Mughals, no different looking than them either.

cronos..

:) couldn’t stop smiling when i read your posts..
whatever bomb blasts/religious or communal riots happens in india, the root is in South city.. the accomplice is from South. so, it is not just north at the edge of the sword, actually it is in the south.. and for your information when india got it’s independence in 1947 (the day britishers left), south is still under the ruling of NIZAM ( a muslim) who is not willing to leave his seat and unite the state in India, after so many fights and the pressure from the central government, this south has been released after few years.. that is the reason why our state formation day is different from our independence day where all the rest of the states don’t have it.. If nobody is against to him or fight against him and lose thousands of lives, that nizam might have united our state into Pakistan..

So, i now i have a doubt whether i lived in rural southern indian village for 25years of my life or CRONOS lived.. sorry to say this, but ten times if we lie, 11th time it won’t become a truth.. a lie is always a lie..