> but it's part of the overall investigation that some Indians do to "figure out" A village is next to useless in terms of identifying one's caste. > I've see

> but it's part of the overall investigation that some Indians do to "figure out" A village is next to useless in terms of identifying one's caste. > I've seen it happen to my dad all the time when we're in another city or country. How? There are more than six million villages in India. Do these people maintain a distributed database of some sort? > I'm sure many things in the article are embellished How much of it is embellishment is exactly what I'm wondering. > but stop reducing other people's experiences. Maybe come up with a convincing argument rather than ask people to take your word for it.