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> There is simply no way to figure out someone's caste by their home village. Most Indian villages will have multiple jatis (sub-caste groups) and it’s perfect
by barry-cotter 5y ago
> There is simply no way to figure out someone's caste by their home village.
Most Indian villages will have multiple jatis (sub-caste groups) and it’s perfectly normal for endogamy to be so complete that people’s families speak exactly the same language and the genetic distance between them is on the order of that between Swedes and Sicilians. Indian genetics is fascinating.