This is bandied about by the commentariat to make those belonging to subaltern groups feel guilty about rooting for their own leaders in the electoral fray

Every election in Bihar has the commentariat bemoaning the grip caste has over the state. This time, though, their bemoaning is mingled with the hope that the performance of former political consultant Prashant Kishor’s party, Jan Suraaj, in the impending Bihar Assembly elections could provide a measure of the state’s preparedness, and willingness, to become a post-caste society. All this talk must be dismissed, brusquely, as arrant nonsense.

Let alone Bihar, even India seems many decades away from becoming a post-caste country. Nobody has yet defined the term ‘post-caste’, but, in electoral terms, it would mean the Indian citizenry,

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