Caste and Race in India c11.9

c11.9

The Brahmins, partly out of their honest desire to preserve the purity of Vedic ritual, partly being the victims of their own ideas of ceremonial purity, and partly also owing to their consciousness of superiority over the aborigines, first enacted rules for the guidance of their own members, and intended to prevent the possibility of the Śūdras in any way lowering their moral standard and introducing their low blood.