Do you have any data to back this up? What power and what wealth exactly? Granted they have managed to stay out of abject poverty largely without any help but i

Do you have any data to back this up? What power and what wealth exactly? Granted they have managed to stay out of abject poverty largely without any help but it's not exactly a story of wealth and power for a really long time now but I don't think the point you're making is that they should be even more worse off? Also even if we assume for a moment that they are slightly better off than the rest of the population could it not be due to their own merit - it's not hard to see that caste puts more emphasis on education and competence even when it's lot harder for them to get into it without reservations.