I agree with you that caste thing has been magnified out of proportion by the politicians to suit their agenda and Swiss bank balances.
Everyone talks of upper castes being atrocious to the lower castes. Tell me how many brahmins.. the so called higher class, have killed the so called backwards? Today, after 50 + years of Reservations for the backwards, how many brahmins are doing great deal of advance? Many. And everything is against them.... the state, the policies, the attitide of masses of BC, OBC, SC & ST. Now there is a talk of a new class... Minorities BCs stuff.
If a community has to grow, there has to be effeort from within, not pampering by the vote hungry politicians.
Guess who used to live in rags, on bare minimum facilities, bagging for alms, teaching the society, often unable to take care of themselves? Brahmins. The other upper castes like Thakurs (many of them) have brought disrepute to the term upper castes... Regular exploitation of poor farmers, land grabbing.
Have Brahmins been known for violence, land grabbing, etc? But they bear the brunt of attack on Upper castes. Not that all Brahmins are sadhus. But the politicians are CRIMINALS.
