the subject of is a very relative one those who didnot eat one square meal a day cannot fight this academic diatribe. the problem of merit caste and everything else is because we have for centuries treated the lower castes and backwards as someone who gets the brickbats and filth rightfully. we need to cleanse our minds of the caste then only can think of an equitable socoety. as for as merit is concerned the country is being ruled for the last 50 years by so called uppercaste who failed to bring country in the top league what about their merit. what about the meritorios scoundrels selling the country. give all these caste some time (compared to thousand years of punishment) they will rise to the levels wanted.