I was pointing out why it is so easy to confuse caste and class. You are thinking of the theory of caste system as per the religious texts, while I am talking a

I was pointing out why it is so easy to confuse caste and class. You are thinking of the theory of caste system as per the religious texts, while I am talking about how it practically exists in India - it is an undeniable fact that the large majority of the poor in India are from the lower caste among Hindus, while those of the middle and upper class are majorly from the Hindu upper caste. While they are not the same, the actual incidents of class discrimination show how caste and class are unfortunately tied together in India, simply because caste supremacist (wrongly) believe class mobility upsets the legitimacy of the caste system in modern India. For them, the social aspiration of a lower caste to accumulate wealth and increase their social status, somehow de-legitimizes their own caste status in the rigidly enforced system where caste mobility is no longer practiced by today's Hindus.