Did British colonial powers invent the Indian caste system?

The caste system closely mirrors the British class system

Question: Did British colonial powers invent the Indian caste system?
Position1 of 5›: Yes, British colonial powers invented the Indian caste system
Argument‹2 of 4›: The caste system closely mirrors the British class system

It is no coincidence that the post-colonial caste system resembles the British class system.

The argument

All countries have natural fault lines in social society, so the existence of divisions in India is not what needs explaining. What needs explaining is their particular shape, and the fact that the Indian fault lines closely match British social fault lines is no coincidence. The comparison with other post-colonial states is what carries the argument. Other 'young' democracies have developed social fault lines that look very different from the old colonial societies they stemmed from. The United States is divided by race and political affiliation. Malaysia, another nation that emerged from British colonialism, saw its social divides fall along ethnic lines. Both cases show that emerging from British rule does not by itself produce a British-looking social structure — societies generate divisions out of their own histories and populations, and those divisions ordinarily bear little resemblance to the coloniser's. India is the exception that requires an explanation. The caste system divides society into antiquated constructs of hereditary status, and the castes remain closely affiliated with family occupation and wealth in the same way British society remains divided by class. The correspondence is not merely that both societies are stratified, which would be unremarkable, but that they are stratified on the same terms: inherited rank, tied to the work a family does and the wealth it holds, and passed down rather than earned. A resemblance that specific is unlikely to have arisen independently, particularly when no comparable resemblance appears in other former colonies. The most economical explanation is that the structure was not indigenous at all: the caste system was a British construct, imposed on Indian social society, which is why it mirrors the class system of the power that imposed it.

Premises

[P1]Other post-colonial societies developed social fault lines unlike their colonisers'—the US divides by race and politics, Malaysia by ethnicity—yet India's caste system divides by hereditary status tied to occupation and wealth, closely mirroring the British class system. [P2] This precise resemblance is presented as no coincidence but as evidence that the caste system was a British construct imposed on Indian society. [C] Therefore British colonial powers invented the Indian caste system.

Counter-arguments

Just because two systems look similar does not mean the same force created them.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P2] Similarity does not mean the same forces created the two systems.