The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c7.16

c7.16

If we thus have in the Brahmanical theory anything but a picture of the real social conditions, we should not also lose sight of the fact that this theory after it was promulgated without much reference to facts, reacted powerfully upon the facts (actual conditions). The more Brahmanical culture spread in the course of centuries, the more did the priestly classes succeed in stamping their desired physiognomy upon the Indian society through their religious and social influence. The superiority of the Brâhmaṇa caste which came gradually into recognition and at first, surely, not without opposition, influenced to a great extent the further