Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Indian castes
The topic is notable per  - see ''http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=u8vvtDI9kt0C Castes and Tribes of Southern India'', for example.  The claim that replacing this list with one or more categories would be better is false, as noted by  which points out that categories have numerous disadvantages including
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Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:LISTN||WP:CLN (Wikipedia:Notability)