[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897) › c10.20 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c10.20 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c10.20 - **Language:** English ### [c10.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c10.20) One cannot help noticing, while reading this paragraph, the influence of a subjective bias on the part of the Buddhistic author; it is not to be supposed that orthodox Brâhmaṇas, proud of their caste, recognised even in Buddhistic lands a Khattiya excommunicated from, and despised by his caste as a Brâhmaṇa and treated him as such; such cases may occasionally have taken place; in its general form, Ambaṭṭha's admission does not seem to me at all acceptable. - [Previous: c10.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c10.19) - [Next: c10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c10.21) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c10.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c10.20) · Pramāṇa