India is certainly changing a great deal. The middle class in India, particularly the urban middle class, is becoming much more important at a much larger percentage of the economy and the society. But it is still a predominantly rural country, so I think conservative social norms are still prevalent and important—as I said, particularly outside the large cities, but even within the large cities.
As to the religious or caste structures, caste specifically is originally, as you said, a Hindu phenomenon, but it is also an important part of the whole society and in fact, part of the government structures. For example, in a large number of government programs there are reserved places, quotas for certain castes—they're not called castes anymore—or certain scheduled peoples. The Dalits are assured places in universities and things like that, so it also still exists.
The society is largely Hindu, but there is still, for example, a very large Muslim community in India. I think 150 million people are Muslim. And that's still, although not the same kind of social conservatism, a significantly conservative society as well. The problem you're looking at here is a problem of the whole country and the whole society, not just certain aspects of it or certain castes.
Mr. Chairman, if I might, I've been asked by your people to make a couple of corrections, which I believe have to be read into the record to be corrected.