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You've made some pretty strange conclusions here.
Non-AC trains have always been more about affordability for the masses. It's a basic price differentiation strategy and has always been a business decision with very little do with caste or class.
We're still a $3k GDP per capita economy, In the foreseeable future and in the next few decades, all trains will eventually become AC as India gets richer and the prices of manufacturing AC coaches comes down.
I've seen this affordability thing thrown around but haven't seen raw numbers. What is the price to operate an AC train that runs on electricity vs a non-AC train that also runs on electricity? And again, since this was missed, I am telling you about the perception of India in the West.