The Age of the Imperial Guptas c7.33

c7.33

The revival in and the reform of the Brahmana-nical or the Hindu religion is also evident from the subdivisions of castes in North-eastern India. Generally speaking castes and sub-castes in the Eastern part of the United Provinces, the North-eastern part of the Central Provinces, the whole of Bihar and Bengal do not correspond to the caste system of the Punjab, Rajputana, or Malwa on the one hand and Gujarat and the Mahārāṣṭra on the other hand. We are not speaking of such provinces of Southern India in which Dravidian languages are still exclusively spoken. In such provinces of Northern, Central, and Western India where Indo-Aryan languages are spoken the caste system can be divided into three great divisions :—