Response: This was one of the arguments given by the Union government in their affidavit in 2022 to counter the claims of SC status by DCs and DMs. This is true but there are also multiple studies and evidence which point out to the continuation of caste communities among Muslims and Christians with certain cultural modifications. For example, Jeffrey Cox in his paper "Christianity and colonial power in India" argues that around the 1920s and 1930s, a large majority of Indian Christians enumerated in Punjab were from the Chuhra caste. John C B Webster observes that the social profile and Public image of Dalit Christians has not changed substantially and he says that according to 2001 census, the literacy rate among them was quite low with a high proportion of them working as agricultural laborers. Even in Odisha, it is very well documented that the major groups which constitute the Christian population are overwhelmingly Adivasis and the rest come from Pano and Dombo communities.  Scholars such as David Mosse, Sathianathan Clarke, Rowena Robinson, Nathaniel Roberts and P Sanal Mohan have provided extensive historical and sociological evidence regarding caste specific mass conversions, mission societies and how Dalit Christians continued to be differentiated over the last two centuries across South Indian states.