Caste of Relations
Kartikey Sehgal
I came upon this information during a conversation on casteism. The lady told me, “There has never been much caste problem in my home town [Jammu] )".
She continued:
“We recently discovered that a family belonging to the shudra caste is actually a brahmin family. The ____ (surname) were brahmins at one time and shifted to a lower caste probably to defend themselves.”
Here’s the backdrop; two families in Jammu have been friends for many decades thought they are from different castes. The …