Krishnan, I agree your point, but in this stupid era, choice of words are definitely important. God has suggested that there 4 types of people based on one's "sudharma". This was misintrepreted by our people as caste. Ofcourse history is written by victorious. Please read the 5 books written by Dharmpal, he has explained the social conditions before the british's invasion.
You can clearly see that there was no difference in the society based on caste (1720), Britishers were successful in first diving the Hindus and then hindus-muslims.
