The maiden glimpse of all these Websites, displaying caste-based information is enough to give you an idea of the fuel, which sets the lights on for their existence. It is that quintessential urge to satiate the thirst of ‘identity crisis’. The space available at the World Wide Web provides just another avenue to quench that desire of disclosing one own identity and let the world acknowledge.

Castes in India have been homogenous units, which allow their members to marry in one’s own community. Now, these websites have come as a new help for people looking for the prospective grooms and brides for their children. All those people who are interested in looking for a suitable guy or girl for oneself from one’ own community just need to register on the site of their respective castes and can free themselves from the un-required burden.

The quest for ‘identity’ can also be looked through the names adopted by the caste based websites, the brief history of the origin of the respective castes, pioneering politicians of state and national level, athletes who have represented the country in various sports and the prominent administrative and police officers as also the prominent scientists belonging to the respective communities.

The most surprising part of this caste based information is that they are run by the so called upwardly looking population of their communities which explain that the level of development on the economic and educational front just cannot stop them from actively participation in this display of web identity on the Internet.

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