[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) › c18.3 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c18.3 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c18.3 - **Language:** English ### [c18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c18.3) Among these numerous races some manifestly stood on a specially low culture-stage. Just as the wild hunting races of the Himâlaya must have distinguished themselves by their external appearance, by their undeveloped language, their customs relating to food, from the more advanced population of the plains, so their low position later prevented a mixture with the higher developed Aryans and preserved their racial peculiarity up to this day. Even to-day they have not gone beyond the first beginnings of culture: incapable of lasting work, they lead a wandering life and feed mostly on animals, roots and fruits which Nature has given them freely¹; where they set up their residences among the cultivated population, they are compelled to live in isolation outside the city and maintain their livelihood by the meanest kinds of work. These are the races of whom it is said in Manu (X. 50): - [Previous: c18.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c18.2) - [Next: c18.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c18.4) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c18) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.10.50) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c18.3) · Pramāṇa