Caste makes you think that you are entitled to a special kind of respect from those whom you consider below you. When you suspect that this respect hasn't been shown, rage is the result. If you didn't rage, where will it end?? Next, they will be considering you an equal! This is the rage that you see, off and on, from NCR in particular. After all, NCR falls in the region where the first caste took shape, some 3000 years ago.

The title of what is commonly known as Manusmriti is Manava Dharmashastra. It was written around 150 CE, and belongs to the genre of 'dharmashastras/ dharmasutras' or law books, of which there are dozens. The earliest of the genre is considered to have been Apastamba Dharmasutra, composed around 3rd century BCE, followed by Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha Dharmasutras, all of which are in prose and earlier than Manusmriti. Manusmriti was the first to be written in verse, and the law books written later mostly followed that practice and all of them are called Dharmashastras. Manusmriti became the most influential among the lawbooks, going by the number of references later authors of law and other books would make to it in the first millennium CE and later. The fact that it was far more comprehensive than earlier works also contributed to that influence - it incorporated much of what was earlier in the domain of 'arthasastra'. Manusmriti is generally regarded as more stringent than other law books, but it is no outlier, and falls within the ambit of the genre of dharmashastras/dharmasutras. All the dharmashastra/sutra texts uphold the four-fold hierarchical division of society into brahmanas, kshatriyas, vaisya and sudra. Unlike the Epics or Puranas, the dharmashastras/sutras were not written for a general audience. They were technical texts written for professional use, mainly by an upper caste, male audience.