Secret No. 3: How Varna and Jati Morphed into Caste 11/06/2022 by Sarvajit Thakur and Subhash Garg AcademiaCastePublications The caste system we know today is a gift of the British Raj. How and why they contrived to metamorphize the traditional Hindu Varna-Jati based social order is the topic explored in this article.