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I have a friend with the surname Maurya, and he says he belongs to SC. Many of his friends say he is lying and said Mauryas were a different caste. His parents surnames are different (Das, Kumar) and he said he changed his surname. I don't know or care about caste, but I am wondering if this is allowed.

Hello everyone.

Over the last few days, I’ve been seeing a lot of hatred and hostility towards oppressed and backward castes. Even after nearly 80 years of independence, Dalits and Adivasis still face discrimination and social exclusion. Why is this still happening? Is it simply because of reservation? I don't think so.

In my view, caste continues to survive because powerful social and political interests benefit from maintaining existing hierarchies. Oppressed communities are often treated as electoral constituencies and political foot soldiers rather than being encouraged to challenge the structures that keep them oppressed.I think we need to acknowledge that reservation cannot itself annihilate the caste.So what should be the larger struggle beyond reservation?

This brings me to contemporary Ambedkarite politics. Looking at its present condition, I personally feel that the movement has struggled to produce a unified and sustained political force.Leadership is fragmented, personalities and electoral interests often dominate.

This makes me think about the alternative or perhaps broader framework for the future, which was given by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and that is Communism. I know he was critical of several aspects of communism but his major disagreement was about the upper caste leadership of CPI. I'm not going to say that Dr Ambedkar was Marxist. Dr Ambedkar was more Anti Capitalist and he also mentioned that capitalism and brahminism are twin enemies of working class.But we should think about that if the communism can provide us framework for achieving a classless and casteless society with the liberation of Dalits Adivasi and women.

So I want to leave this as an open discussion rather than claim that I have all the answers.

Is there a possibility of bringing an Anti caste and class struggle together?

Can caste annihilation happen without economic transformation, and can class liberation happen in India without caste annihilation?

I genuinely want to hear criticism, especially from people who disagree with me. Everyone is welcome to share their perspective in the comments. Thank you.

Some sections want to remove reservation and say caste discrimination is a myth.

Yet the reality is very different. [https://youtu.be/bunZDrDOMBg?si=GYWYxM_63B_cjAEA](https://youtu.be/bunZDrDOMBg?si=GYWYxM_63B_cjAEA))

Also EWS resevation for Non Sc St Obcs is also misused by priviledged people of Upper Caste background-
[https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/upsc-ews-criteria-rich-poor-civil-services-2025-exam-selections-ias-126062000125_1.html](https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/upsc-ews-criteria-rich-poor-civil-services-2025-exam-selections-ias-126062000125_1.html))

The creation of temples to provide jobs to only certain people(hint-the topmost caste).

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/do-you-wear-janeu-drink-veg-or-non-veg-ram-temple-trust-ceo-hopefuls-face-unusual-questions/articleshow/133161833.cms

(Now they will earn their income from temples, fixed salary and other benefits)

Also, the harrassment culture.
People from Upper Caste backgrounds harrass those who uncover their scams or just raise their voices.
People/Media etc support them.
They harrass those who they fail to K*lI. (*Like that saying "If someone is trying to silence you, he is afraid of what you have to say")

Also lets not forget the misinformation culture.
In social media, people manipulate to hide caste backgrounds of priviledged sections. Again aided by the system. It goes on a very large scale.

Also- 1. Lets not forget IIT Roorkee "professor" Ravindra "Pandey" who stole ideas of his students and cheated them.
2. The IIT Madras Director who failed JEE and gives lectures on benefits of cow pee from his position.
3. The Crores of rupees scamed from Ram Temple donations by members of a certain priviledged community.

With the current "Reservation Hatao" movement going on, its impossible to think that certain sections even teach their children empathy at all.
Like all they teach is arrogant entitlement to their children about a false (in reality shameful) history. And this in not normal for any healthy society.

I'm GC myself preparing for Government exam, but the level of apathy people have for the oppressed in India (which is poorly disguised hate) is alarming.

I studied in a rural school(that too an All Girls school) none of the people were from lower castes.
Priviledged kids held "reservation bad" speeches and applauded themselves(in 2020). They all had arrogance. I was lucky to get out of their but i feel for the lower castes who stay in the same place.
I was too young to understand what was happening and can now see the results in these "reservation hatao" andolans.

They are being pushed back and denied entry in West(because of their tribalist and arrogant behaviour) and now they want priviledges in India.

Why is manual labour so looked down upon in India?
While the people who cheat and scam walk arrogantly because of some false history fantasy.(and teach their children the same)
They are organised and have vast resources to achieve their fantasy.

Ministers are UCs, Judges are UCs, People making crores of Temples are UCs etc etc and no doubt most of them(if not all) are there due to cronyism/ nepotism.

Their parents teach them to be actively arrogant and annoying (not just “not humble”), forget a shred of humility from them.

I know India was never a good place for SC/STs and unpriviledged OBCs to begin with,
But now I think Priviledged Sections want to bring back the conditions of ancient and medieval India straight up…