There is a similar system in the US, based on skin color. The article's title references the book How To Be An Antiracist. It's very much on people's minds today, and the article was written to see what lessons the US can learn from the situation in India (including Indians in the US, where caste-ism remains a problem).

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525...