Instead of converting to Buddhism or Islam or Christianity, why don’t Dalits just pretend to be Brahmins? 
How old are you OP? No disrespect but I think you have too much to unravel and learn.
You are too naïve...
In villages, people of different castes have been living in different parts of the village from a long time.
So they know that on that side of village XYZ castes lives and on the other side ABC caste lives.
So even if you change your caste, people will question you and find out your caste.
Another reason is if you change, there is possibility that you may lose on the benefit of schemes and reservation meant for you.
People who have no link with villages, living in an urban setting can definitely do this. But then again, people have this feeling (rightly so) that why should we give up our identity because of this. If we give up our identity, we will lose our culture.
That's what they did in Tamilnadu. The first name is their name and the last name is their dad's name -- no surname in the official name. It worked significantly but not enough to completely solve caste discrimination.
The man's solved caste discrimination! Why didn't they think of just acting like Brahmins lol.
They're killed for having a moustache , attending weddings , not attending weddings, polluting water , touching someone. Imagine what will happen to them if they claim to be Brahmins. They will be found very soon, they share none of the cultural aspects, none of the religious.
Why should a non-vegetarian caste give up meat and all their customs just to pretend to be another caste?
And brahmins aren't just one block. They have different sub-sects and gotras. A dalit would have to do tons of research just to pass off as one. > > Why do all that?
Conversion to Buddhism happened because Buddhism doesn't believe in caste. Conversion to Christianity happened because Christian missionaries were willing to educate communities who weren't allowed to be literate.
Might work in some places. But not in others where families are known to be from a lower caste by everyone in their social circle. Of course people can move. But that’s expensive. Also a lot of caste inferiority eventually gets internalized. So no matter where they go they still feel low self esteem due to years of brainwashing/upbringing. Not to mention you have pride and ego. People not wanting to change who they are to satisfy others.
Why didn't Indians pretend to be British and do away with the British rule in Indian? What is stopping them from doing that?
You have a very naive outlook. Beat around the bush than deal with the actual issue.
Read Coming Out as Dalit by Yashica Dutt if you're not a massive troll.
In today's generation I would rather be born as a dalit than a brahmin the amount of opportunities are insane even am ready to be born a middle class dalit too [-20]
Then they cant claim benefits of reservations lmao. The truly suppressed caste is brahmins haha [-6]
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It’s kind of interesting as a burger how similar India’s caste problems are to our race problems. Anyway good post
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