Caste and Race in India c5.109.4

c5.109.4

Here it must be pointed out that in the United Provinces at least "the penalty for breaches of sub-caste endogamy appears to be as severe as the penalty for similar breaches of caste-endogamy", and that, though the penalty for the transgression of rules about sub-caste commensality varies in different castes, it seems that generally caste and sub-caste commensality are much on a par in this respect.¹ Hence it is but proper to treat endogamy within each of the groups constituting caste-society as one of its principal features.