Caste system is long dead in India.Its only relevance is that it is used by people outside India to troll India. In fact India has been so successful at eradicating caste system that Muslims in India has fallen to bottom of social & economic structure in India.
No body forces anybody to do anything in India. India has 600 million poor people but that is because of our population. Being a free country we cannot force our people to lock their pants like China does. Its just a matter of time & poverty will be gone from India. We already have been successful in reducing fertility rate to 2.3 without asking people to lower their Jonnies like Chinese government does. China growth story is a short term story based on controlled economy. We already have example of what happened with USSR. India is a democracy & capitalistic society. It will grow faster & for longer time than China.
Already rich people in India are richer then Chinese rich people. Indian companies globally are more successful than Chinese companies. Wait for few years & we will surge ahead of China.