Which is why the "America might be a different case" was added. I suspect that the casteism was allowed to flourish among some Indian Americans, whereas in Indi

Which is why the "America might be a different case" was added. I suspect that the casteism was allowed to flourish among some Indian Americans, whereas in India the casteism was actively dismantled (and to how the IT industry is primarily in areas where casteism is less). Indian diaspora in the rest of the West were more middle class and probably did not care for caste at all in the first place.