There is only one caste (Brahmin) which is found all over India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. There is no other caste which is found in all the states of India. All Brahmins propagate vedic culture. All have Sanskrit language background. All perform “thread ceremony” and all have the mindset that they are the “gods on the earth”.
They are all strict advocates of varna-caste system – and consider themselves as born from the mouth of the Brahma, their god. A common Brahmin may not be in contact with other regions’ Brahmins. Yet they all have the common feeling of oneness among them.
But for other castes there is no such a common name. There is no such all-India caste which has the same name as Brahmin. There is no other common link.
Population-wise, the Brahmin may be a minority caste, say 3.5%, but which single caste is more than 3.5% and found all over India?
This also makes the Brahmin a majority caste. There is no common link between any other caste except the Brahmins in the whole of India. Nor do they have cultural relationship. You will not find a Mahar caste all over India, neither Mali nor Kurmi or Kunbi, Shetty or Sonar. They have no common heritage or language.
But the Brahmins claim a common heritage, common roots, common language.
That is how Brahmins have a “national” organisation (RSS) and that is how they have formed the “national” political parties. They alone are “national”.
Other castes need leaders for their emancipation. But Brahmins as a caste is itself a leader. Brahmin is no individual. That is how leaders from “lower castes” have coined the word Brahminism. The word “non-Brahmin” itself explains the prime Importance of the Brahmin. There is not a single term against Brahminism.
We have the Phule- Ambedkarism countering Brahminism, some say Periyarism as anti-Brahmin. There is no caste versus caste fight. There are personalities against Brahmin caste. Thus nobody can say that a complete caste is anti-Brahmin. So in ideology, too, other castes are a minority.
