There are not two sides to this. The lower castes have been violently discriminated against for millenia and need protection to have any hope of not being viciously held in their place by the Brahmin hegemony.
No they haven’t been violently discriminated against for millennia. This is a common colonialist trope spread about India. Your language alone, using Western words like “caste” to describe a system that doesn’t fit that word, is influencing your perception. Caste based discrimination (and all the negative issues that come with it) is very recent, and was nudged into existence by British imperialism, which relied on divide and conquer to control large populations in countries they ruled. Historically Indian separation of these different groups was more like specialization of economic/cultural roles, and did not have the modern sheen of disrespect/classism/discrimination. Please don’t spread ignorant falsehoods like this.
A social system akin to brahminism and caste can only be created and held together by violence. That you can’t see this is because you are benefitting from it, either in the Indian version, or perhaps in the flavors of the same thing developed in the western world.
And since it is held together by violence, it is ok for you and your allies to use violence to oppose it, eh?
Everything in this comment is without evidence. A claim of the form “if you disagree with X you must be Y” is a Kafka trap, a common logical fallacy.
Yes, I can you and your compatriots here getting quite frazzled that someone might actually call into question the social order that you sit atop
Today a similar discrimination, of some people, based on birth, in government jobs in india, is held together without violence, unfortunately.