When one has to choose between jāti identity & class identity, always choose jāti

Jāti is Hindu, for all its drawbacks

Insisting on class based incentives/identity makes RoP+RoL stakeholders in what is essentially and statistically a Hindu problem (poverty/lack of opportunity)
Providing all jātis enough “this worldly” (इहलौकिक) opportunities is job of state

Furthermore providing/helping weaker members of your own jāti too is your problem

Class creates a horizontal section. Jāti is a vertical section. Each jāti (or jāti group) always had rich and poor
Class creates friction with other horizontal sections

There is upwardly (and downward KT) mobility in jāti’s vertical section. There is a convection current moving up & going down. It may or may not conflict with other jāti’s vertical section. But allows upwardly mobility within
It is possible to bring rich & poor of a jāti together for a cause relatively easy. And some resource reallocation for some project is possible within.

In class, all are equally (un)resourceful. Except noise, nothing much is added here.
It would be great if and when we transcend above our identities towards enlightenment

न मे मृत्युशंका न मे जातिभेद
पिता नैव में नैव माता न बन्ध:

Good if one is on this path. For other Hindus, if one is forced to choose between jāti and class by time, dear Hindus choose jāti

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