My caste don’t ask: I am an Indian
There are many people like me who would think of all these questions when the enumerators come to them. They had no role in chosing their caste. They became a Brahmin or a Kayastha by default. Likewise, their children too did not have the choice of being born casteless unless one identity was completely merged into the other. What should these people do then now?
I am thinking of putting out a board in front of our two-room apartment in Delhi saying that we are four members-My wife my two children aged 8 and 4 respectively and I. We will enumerate ourselves as Indians and not the castes to which we belong. Lest it sound arrogant to our policy makers that I am refusing to follow their diktat. On caste enumeration I have a question to ask them: Which caste we would belong?
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