The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c14.44

c14.44

of this, I would not with Senart (*Revue deux mondes*, Vol. 122, p. 98) explain by the attempt of the authors to represent the castes in their ideal integrity, but would rather conclude from this, that it is first in modern times, when the castes take more and more the character of professional communities, that the old unity of the Brâhmaṇa caste, although existing only in the idea, is lost.