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Dear Neal: As Cornel indicated your question on "popular opinion..." is very intriguing. To do a meaningful quantitative and qualitative research on caste is extremely difficult, if not impossible. The subject is sensitive, complex and internalized. Besides, the research of his nature falls in the human-subjects category, which creates serious ethical problems for the researcher. The only good method, from my point of view, to study meaningfully the subject of caste would be an ethnographic study. Although this method is very helpful to understand non-quantifiable issues, and it illuminates many related issues, nonetheless, it does not satisfy chronic/congenital detractors. All the best, Basilio Monteiro
